Four Other Gospels: Shadows on the Contours of Canon

by John Dominic Crossan

FOUR OTHER GOSPELS THOMAS, EGERTON, SECRET MARK, PETER. John Dominic Crossan is professor of Biblical Studies at DePaul University, Chicago. He is the author of many books, including "The Cross That Spoke", winner of the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence, "The Historical Jesus", a religion bestseller and "In Parables", reprinted in a new edition. FOUR OTHER GOSPELS "…Simply breathtaking…,can hardly fail to convince the open minded. Gospel studies--and hence studies about Jesus and the origins of Christianity--should never be the same again." James M. Robinson "I found FOUR OTHER GOSPELS fascinating and incisive. . . . Here is a book that splendidly exemplifies the new possibilities for research that integrates canonical and extra canonical sources." Elaine Pagel ". . . An important contribution to the ongoing discussion of the relation of non-canonical gospels to the four gospels; written with clarity, creativity and an attractive style, this is a book of intriguing speculation leading to new insights." George MacRae, SJ

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First published December 31, 1985

About the author

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.