The Historical Jesus

John Dominic Crossan is professor emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University. He was co-chair of the Jesus Seminar from 1985-1996 as it met in twice-annual meetings to debate the historicity of the life of Jesus in the gospels. He was Chair of the Parables Seminar from 1972-76; Editor of Semeia: An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism in 1980-86; and chair of the Hitsorical Jesus Section from 1993-1998, within the Society of Biblical Literature. He has written eighteen books on the historical Jesus and earliest Christianity including The Historical Jesus: The Life of Mediterranean Jewish Peasant, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, Who Killed Jesus: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus, and The Birth of Christianity. He has been interviewed for over 150 television and radio shows includng PBS's "From Jesus to Christ" and A&E's "Mysteries of the Bible". From the Lectures Program archive.