University of North Carolina Wilmington
and
The Department of the Philosophy and Religion at UNCW
present
world renowned scholar on the historical Jesus

Professor John Dominic Crossan

Coming to Kenan Auditorium March 29th, at 7:00

Free and open to the public, tickets not required

John Dominic Crossan was born in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland in 1934. He was educated in Ireland at Maynooth College, in Rome at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and in Jerusalem at the Ecole Biblique.

Crossan was a member of the 13th-century Roman Catholic religious order, the Servites, from 1950 to 1969 and an ordained priest from 1957 to 1969. He taught at DePaul University for 25 years and held a visiting professorship at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. He has been a guest lecturer at many distinguished universities including the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. He was co-director of the Jesus Seminar from 1985-1996 and chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the Society of Biblical Literature from 1992-1998.

He has contributed articles and reviews for dozens of journals and has written 18 books over the last 30 years, and has received numerous academic awards over the years including the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in Religious Studies and the Via Sapientiae Award, DePaul University's highest honor.

The list of his print, radio, and television interviews and reviews takes up over thirteen full pages. Crossan's interviews include The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, National Public Radio's "Fresh Air", Larry King Live and the ABC special "The Search for Jesus" with Peter Jennings which aired on Monday, June 26.

 Dr. Crossan's books include the following:

Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John D. Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during the week leading up to Jesus's crucifixion.

"If there is [...] one book for the redemption of Holy Week, this is it. This is a must read..." -- Peter J. Gomes Harvard University

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