Dos de los mayores especialistas actuales en Jesús, Marcus J. Borg y John Dominic Crossan, unen sus fuerzas para poner de manifiesto cómo la historia ha influido en nuestra lectura del relato de la natividad tal como aparece en los evangelio...
La Biblia nos presenta un Jesús que pone la otra mejilla, ama a sus enemigos y se muestra compasivo con todos. Pero también nos encontramos con un Jesús guerrero que encabeza un ejército de ángeles que llevan la destrucc...
Es un principio incuestionable de la fe cristiana. Es el modo en que Jesús enseñó a orar a sus discípulos y destila las convicciones más esenciales que se exigen a cada uno de los 2.500 millones de cristianos.
Resulta obvio decir que Pablo realmente interesa. Ahora bien, cómo y cuánto interesa son cuestiones que no encuentran una respuesta uniforme entre los cristianos. Por el contrario, nos encontramos con opiniones e ideas muy diversas e incluso...
Un investigador considerado como la máxima autoridad en arqueología de la Palestina del siglo I de nuestra era, el profesor Jonathan I. Reed, que dirige en la actualidad las excavaciones de Séforis, y una de las máximas figuras...
¿Inventó Pablo el cristianismo? Los autores utilizan nuevos análisis históricos y descubrimientos arqueológicos para responder a ésta y a otras preguntas vitales sobre Pablo y los primeros cristianos. Crossan y...
From his boyhood in Tipperary, Kildare, and Donegal to the pinnacle of biblical scholarship, John Dominic Crossanâs adventurous spirit has led him to seek out the truth no matter where it leads. In this delightful memoir, the former monk...
Every Sunday, the Lordâs Prayer echoes in every Church around the world. It is an indispensable element of the faith. It is the way Jesus taught his followers to pray, and encapsulates the essential beliefs and attitudes to which all...
John Dominic Crossanâs In Parables demonstrated how Jesusâs parables demolished an idolatry of time. In this book, he shows how the parables likewise preclude an idolatry of language.In a new, creative synthesis, Raid...
After his definitive The Historical Jesus, John Dominic Crossan delivered Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography--a popularized, bestselling account of what we can know about the life of Jesus. Here he offers the core of his lifeâs work--a...
The four canonical gospels are long set in established sequence as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This book is about four other gospels, the Gospel of Thomas, the Secret Gospel of Mark; the Gospel of Peter, and Egerton Papyrus 2. These four other gospels...
The aphoristic form conveys universal truths in a distinctive, compressed format. Such sayings go straight to the heart of the matter and linger long afterward in the memory. Curiously enough, the greatest aphorist of all time, Jesus, often goes unrecogni...
An imaginative and illuminating study, Finding Is the First Act places historical thinking in creative tension with literary appreciation. The structures of Jesusâs parable of the hidden treasure (Matt 13:44) are examined by mapping its...
In this revolutionary work, John Dominic Crossan reveals that the Passion and Resurrection Narratives in the four canonical Gospels are radical revisions of an earlier Gospel account. He argues boldly that the apocryphal Gospel of Peter, discovered in...
He establishes the contextual setting through a combination of literary, anthropological, historical and archaeological approaches. He challenges the assumptions about the role of Paul and the meaning of resurrection, and forges a new understanding of...