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John Dominic Crossan was born in Who Killed Jesus; and The Birth of , County , , Christianity—were national bestsellers in 1934. He was educated in Ireland for a combined total of twenty-two at Maynooth College, in Rome at months. In another recent book, the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and in Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Jerusalem at the Ecole Biblique. Behind the Texts, Crossan joins a brilliant archaeologist to illuminate Crossan was a member of the the life and teaching of Jesus against thirteenth-century Roman Catholic the background of his world. He religious order, the Servites, from has received numerous academic 1950 to 1969 and an ordained awards over the years, including the priest from 1957 to 1969. He taught American Academy of Religion Award at DePaul University for twenty-five for Excellence in Religious Studies and years and held distinguished visiting the Via Sapientiae Award, DePaul professorships at Williams College, University’s highest honor. Williamstown, Massachusetts and the University of Central Florida, Orlando, The list of his print, radio, and Florida. He has been a guest lecturer television interviews and reviews takes at many distinguished universities up over thirteen full pages. Crossan’s including the University of Chicago interviews include the New York and Northwestern University. He Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los was codirector of the Jesus Seminar Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, from 1985—1996 and chair of the National Public Radio’s Fresh Air, Historical Jesus Section of the Society Larry King Live, and the ABC special of Biblical Literature from 1992­—1998. “The Search for Jesus” with Peter Jennings, which aired on Monday, He has contributed articles and June 26, 2000. Some of John Dominic reviews for dozens of journals and Crossan’s other writing can be found has written more than twenty books at Beliefnet. His website is over the last thirty years. The Birth of www.johndominiccrossan.com Christianity was a Publishers Weekly 1998 “Best Book of the Year.” Four He lives with his wife, Sarah, near recent titles—The Historical Jesus; Orlando, Florida. Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography;