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The Historicity of the Life of Jesus in the Gospels ( Q & A Session - 4 of 4 )

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The Historicity of the Life of Jesus in the Gospels

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Dr. Shabir Ally is president of the Islamic Information & Dawah Centre International in Toronto, Canada.

He is a Muslim activist, academic, scholar and public speaker on Islam and comparative religion. He is viewed as the leading Muslim debater in the world on Islam and Christianity, having engaged in public debates around the world with noted theologians, Christian apologists and renowned philosophers.

Dr. Shabir Ally holds an M.A. and PhD in Islamic studies from the University of Toronto, and a BA in religious studies from Laurentian University with a specialization in Biblical Literature. He is the author of numerous booklets on Islam and Christianity.

John Dominic Crossan is a renowned international progressive biblical scholar. He visited Sydney in September 2012 to deliver a series of lectures and one major public address.

The lecture series followed the theme of his latest book, titled The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction About Jesus.

Crossan's previous works such as The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991) and Jesus: a Revolutionary Biography (1994) have sattracted international and popular attention.

Born in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, in 1934, Crossan was educated in Ireland and the United States, received a Doctorate of Divinity from Maynooth College, Ireland, in 1959, and did post-doctoral research in Rome and Jerusalem. He was a member of a 13th century Roman Catholic religious order, the Servites (Ordo Servorum Mariae), from 1950 to 1969 and an ordained priest from 1957 to 1969. He joined DePaul University, Chicago, in 1969 and remained there until 1995. He is now a Professor Emeritus in its Department of Religious Studies. He has received numerous awards and accolades for scholarly excellence.

( University of Toronto, Medical Sciences Building, Canada, Saturday April 5, 2014 3:30 pm - 7:00 pm )

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