All the major events in Jesus’ life are directly described in the Gospels, except one: the Resurrection itself. We now live with two images of the Resurrection—the Individual Tradition of Jesus arising alone in the Western Tradition, and the Universal Tradition of Jesus arising and raising with him all-humanity represented by Adam and Eve. Which of those two Resurrection Traditions is in closer continuity with the Easter vision of the New Testament? What does Christian Easter have to do with human evolution? And with the historic rise in violence?

With John Dominic Crossan: an Irish-American biblical scholar with post-doctoral diplomas in exegesis from Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute and in archeology from Jerusalem’s École Biblique. He has been a mendicant friar and a catholic priest, a Co-Chair of the Jesus Seminar, and a President of the Society of Biblical Literature.