An imaginative and illuminating study, 'Finding is the First Act places historical thinking in creative tension with literary appreciation. The structures of Jesus's parable of the hidden treasure …
"He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee. He is watched by the cold, hard eyes of peasants living long enough at a subsistence level to know exactly where the line is drawn between p…
"Jesus is a magisterial distillation of Crossan's lifelong work on the gospels and Jesus. It deserves careful and extended consideration by everyone seriously interested in the enigmatic sage from …