Who Killed Him?
Rachel Asare
Professor Ford
Humanities 2830
February 9, 2005
Crossan, John Dominic. Who Killed Jesus? : Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus. SanFrancisco:
HarperSanFrancisco, 1995. Pp.XII+238, Hardcover, $29.95, ISBN 0-06-061479-X (cloth:alk. paper).
Who Killed Jesus? Is a book written by John Dominic Crossan, a professor of Religious Studies at a Chicago university. The book is a boldly written account of Jesus' arrest, trial, and crucifixion. At the onset of this book Crossan sets out to prove that Christians have held the Jewish community responsible for the death of Jesus resulting in anti-Semitism. "As long as Christians were the marginalized and disenfranchised ones, such passion fiction about Jewish responsibility and Roman innocence did nobody much harm. But once the Roman Empire became Christian, that fiction turned lethal"
Crossan boldly states that Jews are not responsible for the death of Jesus, but rather the......
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