Finding Is the First Act

Finding Is the First Act

by John Dominic Crossan
3/5

An imaginative and illuminating study, Finding Is the First Act places historical thinking in creative tension with literary appreciation.

The structures of Jesus's parable of the hidden treasure (Matt 13:44) are examined by mapping its plot options (find.

Format
150 pages
First published
2008
Publishers
Wipf & Stock Publishers

John Dominic Crossan

About John Dominic Crossan

John Dominic Crossan is generally regarded as the leading historical Jesus scholar in the world. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Historical Jesus, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Birth of Christianity, and Who Killed Jesus? He lives in Clermont, Florida. John Dominic Crossan was born in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1934. He was educated in Ireland and the United States, received a Doctorate of Divinity from Maynooth College in Ireland in 1959, and did post-doctoral research at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome from 1959 to 1961 and at the École Biblique in Jerusalem from 1965 to 1967. He was a member of a thirteenth-century Roman Catholic religious order, the Servites (Ordo Servorum Mariae), from 1950 to 1969 and was an ordained priest in 1957. He joined DePaul University in Chicago in 1969 and remained there until 1995. He is now a Professor Emeritus in its Department of Religious Studies....

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