Who Killed Jesus Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus

Name: Who Killed Jesus Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus
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ISBN: 9780060614805

ISBN-10: 0060614803

ISBN-13: 9780060614805

Edition: 1996

Authors: John Dominic Crossan

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The death of Jesus is one of the most hotly debated questions in Christianity today. In his massive and highly publicized The Death of the Messiah, Raymond Brown -- while clearly rejecting anti-Semitism -- never questions the essential historicity of the passion stories. Yet it is these stories, in which the Jews decide Jesus' execution, that have fueled centuries of Christian anti-Semitism. Now, in his most controversial book, John Dominic Crossan shows that this traditional understanding of the Gospels as historical fact is not only wrong but dangerous. Drawing on the best of biblical, anthropological, sociological and historical research, he demonstrates definitively that it was the…

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List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/2/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Considered by many to be the most learned scholar on the topic of Jesus Christ, John Dominic Crossan's adversaries question how he reconciles his Catholic faith with 20th century secular study. A former priest, Crossan is the author of The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography; The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus, and The Cross That Spoke: The Origins of the Passion Narrative, among others.



Preface


Prologue: History and Prophecy


History Remembered and Prophecy Historicized


Dependent and Independent Passion Stories


Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism



Crime


In the Territory of Antipas


Peasants in the Temple


Overturning the Tables



Arrest


Prophecies Old and New


A Kiss in Public


Suppliants on the Mount of Olives


Agony as Victory



Trial


In the Beginning Was Psalm 2


Bad Memory or Popular Creativity?


Mark's Literary Fingerprints


From One to Two Trials


Other Versions, Other Purposes



Abuse


Scourging and Abuse


Jesus as Scapegoat


Following the Trail of the Reed



Execution


A Thief on Either Side


The Two Thieves as a Test Case


Casting Lots for His Garments


Gall and Vinegar to Drink


Pilate, the Crowd, and the Crucifixion



Burial


Burying the Crucified


Hope Is Not History


The Guards at the Tomb


The Women at the Tomb



Resurrection


According to the Scriptures


The Cross That Spoke


Apparition and Authority


Epilogue: History and Faith


Autobiographical Presuppositions


Theological Presuppositions


Historical Presuppositions


Appendix. The Gospel of Peter


Sources


Index