A Long Way from Tipperary: What a Former Irish Monk Discovered in His Search for the TruthA Memoir John Dominic Crossan (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2000) 216 pp., $23.00 (hardback) Dom Crossan is a nice guy—I know him—but he has some controversial things to say about Jesus and the New Testament stories about him. A prominent scholar in so-called historical Jesus studies—the effort to find the human Jesus as he lived at the turn of the era—Crossan believes Jesus was a kind of Jewish Cynic, a follower of an eastern variety of an important Greek philosophy. Cynics are often […]
