John Dominic Crossan

So nobody had ever heard like sexuality kinda up to you and it's Biblical.

Dominic Crossan and the, the Jesus Seminars-

Uh, yes

... where they're voting on what Jesus may have said, may not have said.

Mm

... and it has a lot of, uh, contacts with the Gospel of John.

Yep.

Which was kind of a popular theory in the mid-'50s that there...

Yeah

... they're, they were thinking of all kinds of lost sources in the mid-19, uh, you know, mid, uh, 20th century.

Um, one, one of them is a source between, uh, Mark and John.

And, and so this very much looks like it, it, it could be-

Some argue that it's more likely that the body of a crucified enemy of the state from a lower-class family would have been dumped in a pit grave or trench grave, or left on the cross for the vultures.

This is notably argued by the New Testament scholars Bart Ehrman and John Dominic Crossan, who cite cases of Roman authorities denying proper burial to criminals by simply leaving the body on the cross.

Other critical scholars argue that the broad outlines described in the Gospels are either the more likely outcome or at the very least a plausible outcome for the body of Jesus, based on what we know about Jewish burial practices of the time.

Jewish law in Deuteronomy 21 says to bury executed criminals by sundown, and there's evidence that Jews in the first century followed this law.

Like all editions of the Lost Gospel Q, the present one is a reconstruction from non-Markan material shared in common by Matthew and Luke.

Mark Powelson and Ray Riegert, the editors of this volume, have immersed themselves in the history of Q's scholarship from the 19th century to the present and are thoroughly conversant with the recent burst of publishing on Q.

Their reconstruction largely follows the order of Q as found in John Kloppenborg's recent foundational study.

They have made major use of massive commentaries by W.D. Davies and Dale Allison on Matthew and Joseph Fitzmyer on Luke.

Oh, yes.

I'm looking up a Jesus Seminar scholar, and I'm wondering if you know him, John Dominic Crossan.

Yes, I even heard him speak.

Oh, nice.

Progressivists don't believe Christ rose from the dead.

That's why we had a debate on this with John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg, what, 20 years ago now? I think it was around 2005-ish, something like that.

I've been telling people, warning people for decades, this is what progressivism is about.

It has no foundation for maintaining even a semblance of Christianity.

Some writers claim that he was insane because he said that.

Then there's the writings of John Dominic Crossan.

Some of you are familiar with him.

He was part of that Jesus Seminar group of so-called scholars.