Publications

Major publications include:

Monographs

  • The Date of Mark’s Gospel: Insight from the Law in Earliest Christianity (London: Continuum/T&T Clark, 2004).
  • Why Christianity Happened: A Sociohistorical Account of Christian Origins (Louisville: WJK, 2006).
  • Jesus in an Age of Terror: Scholarly Projects for a New American Century (London: Equinox, 2008)

Popular

  • co-authored with M. F. Bird, Two Views on Christian Origins: A Secular and Evangelical Dialogue (London: SPCK,2008)

Edited Volumes

  • Writing History, Constructing Religion (edited with C. Karner, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005).
  • • Halvor Moxnes, Ward Blanton and James Crossley (eds.), Jesus beyond Nationalism: Constructing the Historical Jesus in a Period of Cultural Complexity (London: Equinox, 2009)

Articles

  • ‘Halakah and Mark 7.4: “…and beds”’, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 25 (2003), pp. 433-447.
  • ‘The Semitic Background to Repentance in the Teaching of John the Baptist and Jesus’, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 2 (2004), pp. 139-158.
  • ‘The Damned Rich (Mark 10:17-31)’, Expository Times 116 (2005), pp. 397-401.
  • ‘Against the Historical Plausibility of the Empty Tomb Story and the Bodily Resurrection of Jesus: A Response to N. T. Wright’, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 3 (2005), pp. 153-68.
  • ‘Defining History’, in Writing History, Constructing Religion (ed. J. G. Crossley and C. Karner, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 9-29.
  • ‘History from the Margins: The Death of John the Baptist’, in Writing History, Constructing Religion (ed. J. G. Crossley and C. Karner, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 147-161.
  • Debating the Bible Stories: James Crossley looks at the state of New Testament Studies’, History Today,/i> (December, 2006).
  • Oh-My-God! It’s so the Teen Bible’, SBL Forum (January, 2007).
  • ‘Moses and Pagan Monotheism’, T. Römer (ed.), La construction de la figure de Moïse (Paris: Gabalda, 2007).
  • • ‘Jesus and the Sinners’, Fourth R (2007).
  • ‘Writing about the Historical Jesus: Historical Explanation and “the Big Why Questions” or Antiquarian Empiricism and Victorian Tomes?’, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus (2009).