Adventures of an Itinerant Imagination
Essays Celebrating John Dominic Crossan on His Ninetieth Birthday
- Biblical Studies & Commentaries
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
John Dominic Crossan is the most important scholar on the historical Jesus since David Fredrick Strauss in the nineteenth century. Both his scholarly The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991) and the more popular Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994) made the bestsellers list. But the scope of his work goes well beyond the historical Jesus to studies on the death of Jesus and anti-Semitism, Christianity and empire, archaeology, the apostle Paul the Pharisee, and recently apocalyptic and the environment. He addresses both scholarly and popular audiences, ancient sources and contemporary concerns. The essays in this volume explore and access the range of his work for his various audiences. Some of the essays are scholarly in tone, while others are quite personal. A feature of this book is Crossan's complete curriculum vitae.
Endorsements (3)
“What an excellent celebration of Dom Crossan’s life-long and enduring scholarly contributions on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday! Twenty-one scholars tell stories about Crossan and reflect insightfully and appreciatively on the impact of reading his work. Contributions focus on Parables and Fragments, the Historical Jesus, Violence, Empire (ancient and modern), and Civilization. This is a stimulating recognition and honoring of John Dominic Crossan’s work and legacy.”
“An appreciative tribute by his friends and colleagues to John Dominic Crossan for his numerous contributions (the volume includes an eighty-two-page vita) toward understanding Jesus, the Gospels, and Paul both in their historical contexts and regarding their import for today.”
“The twenty-one essays in Adventures of an Itinerant Imagination comprise a series of conversations with Crossan’s oeuvre and the foundational contributions that he has made to a breathtaking variety of foundational topics: the poetics of biblical language; the historical Jesus and the historical Paul; method and theory in biblical studies; the reach of imperial ideology; and the public import of scholarship on the Bible.”
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