Crossan’s work as a scholar and pop-history author involved a particular sceptical interpretation of very early Christianity that is not shared by most of the s

Crossan’s work as a scholar and pop-history author involved a particular sceptical interpretation of very early Christianity that is not shared by most of the sceptical historians of early Christianity. So, his scepticism is particularly extreme. There are plenty of Mediterranean historical fiction-like tales where an original grain of truth does seem promising. Besides popular cases like Atlantis, and Troy as a site, there’s e.g. Aeneas coming from Troy to Rome as a possible reflection of an Bronze Age-collapse era migration from western Anatolia to Italy bringing the Etruscan language.