John Dominic Crossan was born in Ireland but was educated mostly in the United States. He is a religious scholar known for co-founding the "Jesus Seminar" and was formerly a Catholic priest. The Jesus Seminar researches the historical Jesus and is known to make non-traditional statements about the historicity of New Testament events. Crossan is a major figure in the fields of biblical archaeology, anthropology and New Testament textual and higher criticism. He is also a lecturer who has appeared in television documentaries about Jesus and the Bible.

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