What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of fishes, they're done especially for the insiders, for the disciples. Usually healings and exorcisms are done for people… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
“When a metaphor gets big, it is called “tradition”; when it gets bigger, it is called “reality”;” — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
I can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry about him, and basically everyone else who was announcing in the year 2000 at midnight, the end of the world is coming, I expect them to be wrong. Now if they're right of course, I'll be very uncomfortable… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share
I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we simply marginalise them. Oprah would have all those who think they are Messiah on her show, and we'd have six people who all claimed to be the Messiah, and we'd have got rid of Jesus and laughed him… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share
Jesus told parables. When he wanted to say something really profound about God, he went into parable. I don't find it surprising then that… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done that sort… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
“The ecstatic vision and social program sought to rebuild a society upward from its grass roots but on principles of religious and economic egalitarianism,… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
“. . . I still hold two truths with equal and fundamental certainty. One: the British did terrible things to the Irish. Two: the… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Now when you get something like the Apocalypse of John, when this avenging God is going to have blood to the bridle bits for… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Jesus' death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate is as sure as anything historical can ever be. For if no follower of Jesus had written… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
