Four foundational volumes reconstruct the world of the historical Jesus, the birth of the earliest church, and the radical roots of faith.
Crossan applies an interdisciplinary method of cross-cultural anthropology, Greco-Roman history, and first-century textual analysis to reconstruct the agrarian peasant society of Galilee.
These investigations trace the movement from a rural program of shared meals and free healing into an urban community in Jerusalem navigating Roman imperial control.
The eBook collection of four complete works by bestselling author and leading historical Jesus scholar John Dominic Crossan, including Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Birth of Christianity, The Power of Parable, and The Greatest Prayer.
Biblical Archaeology: Uncovers physical evidence of Roman execution, including the Giv’at ha-Mivtar skeletal remains preserving a bent iron nail embedded in a victim’s heel bone.Evidence-Based: Investigates the economic impact of Herod Antipas’s urbanization program on Lake Kinneret, where the founding of Tiberias commercialized fishing and displaced local families.Case Studies: Explores early Christian manuscript production, tracing the adoption of papyrus codices and sacred abbreviations alongside subversive parables that overturned conventional social hierarchies.Also by This Author: How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian and The Historical Jesus.
