The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images

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Wipf and Stock Publishers, Mar 1, 2008 - Religion - 208 pages
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 life's work--a concise and astonishing presentation of the authentic teachings and earliest images of the revolutionary Galilean sage. Crossan's fresh translations of Jesus' sayings show Jesus to be a teacher whose radical message that all are equal before God is as timely today as it was two thousand years ago. This picture is dramatically confirmed by the preConstantinian, Christian renderings of Jesus, which show that he was remembered by the first Christians not as God but as a revolutionary healer and leader.

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Notes on Texts
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Inventory of Images
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About the author (2008)

John Dominic Crossan is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at DePaul University, Chicago. He has written twenty books on the historical Jesus in the last thirty years, four of which have become national religious bestsellers: The Historical Jesus (1991), Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994), Who Killed Jesus? (1995), and The Birth of Christianity (1998). He is a former co-chair of the Jesus Seminar, and a former chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, an international scholarly association for biblical study based in the United States.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images
AuthorJohn Dominic Crossan
PublisherWipf and Stock Publishers, 2008
ISBN1725221861, 9781725221864
Length208 pages
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Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General
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