Career
Crossan writes books for both academic and popular audiences. His two lengthiest books are The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991) and The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened Immediately after the Execution of Jesus (1998).
Two of Crossan's briefer popular books are Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994) and Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus (1995).
Crossan has also co-authored a book about Jesus and another about Paul with archaeologist Jonathan L. Reed (2001, 2004), which provide contextualization of the lives and times of these two men.
In 1985, Crossan and Robert Funk founded the Jesus Seminar, a group of academics studying a historical Jesus. Crossan served as co-chair of the Jesus Seminar for its first decade. He is also a member of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), serving as the President of the Society in 2012. He is also featured in a number of Living the Questions programs, including "Eclipsing Empire" and "First Light."
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