The Cross that Spoke: The Origins of the Passion Narrative

by John Dominic Crossan

Overview

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 the grave of a Christian monk in Egypt circa 1886, contains the earliest version of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. He describes how the authors of the four Gospels revised the early account of how their revision predominated as Roman authority grew. Lacking in the revision, he suggests, is the very heart of the earlier Passion: its depiction of Jesus' death as the consummation of Israel's pain and the resurrection as the vindication of Israel's faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725221819
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	03/01/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	454
File size:	34 MB
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About the Author

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.
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.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations     viii
Prologue     ix
Theory     1
Discovery     3
Interpretation     10
Thesis     16
Text     31
The Trial     33
The Abuse     114
The Crucifixion     160
The Burial     234
The Guards     249
The Women     281
The Twelve     291
Theology     295
Vindicated Innocence     297
Communal Resurrection     335
Roman Confession     394
Epilogue     404
Appendix     409
Bibliography     414
Author Index     427
Text Index     431