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Second-Century Christianity
A Sourcebook
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481314152
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-10-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-10-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
744 Pages
The second century of the Common Era was a time of significant transition, innovation, and upheaval for the Greco-Roman world. In the midst of great societal changes the relatively new religious movement...
The Art of Divination in the Ancient Near East
Reading the Signs of Heaven and Earth
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481308601
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-02-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-02-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
359 Pages
You stars of Anu, I call on you! You stars of Enlil, turn to me!You stars of Ea, all of you together, gather around me!I have offered you a pure sacrifice,I have scattered pure incense to you,I have...
Jesus and the Ossuaries
What Jewish Burial Practices Reveal about the Beginning of Christianity
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481314596
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2020-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-12-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
178 Pages
In Jesus and the Ossuaries, Craig A. Evans helps all readers, expert and layperson alike, understand the importance this recent find might have for the quest for the historical Jesus and any historical...
Greek Genres and Jewish Authors
Negotiating Literary Culture in the Greco-Roman Era
Price: $89.99
ISBN: 9781481312912
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2020-09-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-08-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
448 Pages
The ancient world, much like our own, thrived on cultural diversity and exchange. The riches of this social reality are evident in the writings of Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman eras. Jewish authors...
God's Body
Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481311687
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2019-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2019-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
632 Pages
God is unbounded. God became flesh. While these two assertions are equally viable parts of Western Christian religious heritage, they stand in tension with one another. Fearful of reducing God’s...
Exploring Biblical Backgrounds
A Reader in Historical and Literary Contexts
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481308540
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2018-08-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2018-07-13
Imprint: Baylor University Press
272 Pages
Exploring Biblical Backgrounds provides students and teachers with a rich compendium of ancient primary sources that form essential readings for studying both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible....
Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity
Studies in Text Transmission
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481307826
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2017-10-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2017-09-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
370 Pages
Only a small fraction of ancient literature survives--less than one percent, estimates reveal. While the reasons vary, it is an irony that Christianity, often regarded as responsible for the proliferation...
The Other Judaisms of Late Antiquity
Second Edition
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481307598
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2017-08-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2017-07-17
Imprint: Baylor University Press
308 Pages
In The Other Judaisms of Late Antiquity the late Alan F. Segal is at his very best. This reissued and expanded edition--now containing his celebrated "Heavenly Ascent in Hellenistic Judaism, Early...
Strangers to Family
Diaspora and 1 Peter’s Invention of God’s Household
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481305488
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2016-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2016-09-30
Imprint: Baylor University Press
229 Pages
In Strangers to Family Shively Smith reads the Letter of 1 Peter through a new model of diaspora. Smith illuminates this peculiarly Petrine understanding of diaspora by situating it among three other...
The Power of Children
The Construction of Christian Families in the Greco-Roman World
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481302234
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2014-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2014-08-29
Imprint: Baylor University Press
248 Pages
The Power of Children examines Christian teaching about children in the context of family life in the Roman world. Specifically, author Margaret Y. MacDonald measures the impact of the New Testament's...
The Great Archimedes
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9781602583115
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2011-01-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2010-12-14
Imprint: Baylor University Press
132 Pages
In this exclusive English edition of the elucidating and award-winning investigation of Archimedes' life, Mario Geymonat provides fresh insights into one of the greatest minds in the history of humankind....
Second-Century Christianity
A Sourcebook
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481314152
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-10-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-10-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
744 Pages
The Art of Divination in the Ancient Near East
Reading the Signs of Heaven and Earth
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481308601
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-02-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-02-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
359 Pages
Jesus and the Ossuaries
What Jewish Burial Practices Reveal about the Beginning of Christianity
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481314596
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2020-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-12-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
178 Pages
Greek Genres and Jewish Authors
Negotiating Literary Culture in the Greco-Roman Era
Price: $89.99
ISBN: 9781481312912
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2020-09-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-08-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
448 Pages
God's Body
Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481311687
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2019-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2019-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
632 Pages
Exploring Biblical Backgrounds
A Reader in Historical and Literary Contexts
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481308540
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2018-08-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2018-07-13
Imprint: Baylor University Press
272 Pages
Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity
Studies in Text Transmission
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481307826
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2017-10-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2017-09-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
370 Pages
The Other Judaisms of Late Antiquity
Second Edition
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481307598
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2017-08-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2017-07-17
Imprint: Baylor University Press
308 Pages
Strangers to Family
Diaspora and 1 Peter’s Invention of God’s Household
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481305488
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2016-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2016-09-30
Imprint: Baylor University Press
229 Pages
The Power of Children
The Construction of Christian Families in the Greco-Roman World
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481302234
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2014-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2014-08-29
Imprint: Baylor University Press
248 Pages
The Great Archimedes
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9781602583115
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2011-01-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2010-12-14
Imprint: Baylor University Press
132 Pages