John Dominic Crossan

John Dominic Crossan (born Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, 1934) is an Irish-American religious scholar and former Catholic priest known for co-founding the Jesus Seminar. Crossan is an important figure in the field of biblical archeology, anthropology and New Testament textual criticism and higher. It is also a teacher who has appeared in television documentaries about Jesus and the Bible. He is a key figure in the controversy surrounding the historical Jesus. (Theissen, 145-169)

Crossan suggests that Jesus was an illiterate "cynical Jew" of peasant without land, initially a follower of John the Baptist. Jesus was a healer and a man ...