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The Visible Word of the Unseen God

Reading John Among Rivals Old and New

by Steven M. Bryan

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481323147

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-10-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

378 Pages

From the late first century to the end of late antiquity, three rival traditions—pagan, Jewish, and Christian—found themselves at odds over one issue in particular: the nature of the relationship...

Readings in Romans

Interpreting Paul's Apocalyptic Gospel

by Beverly Roberts Gaventa

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481323581

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-10-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

384 Pages

To read a passage repeatedly, to examine its ambiguities, to probe its place in a larger text, to reflect on its relationship to other texts by the same author and its place within the canon of Scripture—all...

Gospel Birth Narratives and Historiography

Reopening a Closed Case

by Caleb T. Friedeman

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481324212

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-09-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

236 Pages

Scholars today tend to view the birth narratives of Jesus as substantially less reliable than the rest of the canonical Gospel accounts. Indeed, many recent studies of the historical Jesus pass over...

Adam’s Wisdom and Israel’s Law

Paul, Early Judaism, and Natural Law Tradition

by Rony Kozman

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481320184

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-09-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

320 Pages

The concept of natural law—universal moral knowledge—is often associated with Stoic philosophers, Thomas Aquinas, or the medieval Jewish rabbis. But Jews in the Second Temple period had their own...

Theology on the Run

Apocalyptic Pastoral Theology in Paul's Thessalonian Letters

by Jamie Davies

Foreword by Susan Grove Eastman

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9781481324502

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-09-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

230 Pages

Writing a study in apocalyptic pastoral theology may sound like an exercise in "performative self-contradiction." But such an endeavor reminds us that the imminent expectation of the Lord’s return,...

Aramaic Jesus

Tradition, Identity, and Christianity's Mother Tongue

by Bruce D. Chilton

Price: $52.99

ISBN: 9781481322232

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-09-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

306 Pages

Aramaic, one of the great international languages of antiquity, left an indelible mark on the New Testament. Jesus and his first followers knew it because for centuries Aramaic had been a primary means...

Paul and the Wrath

Divine Judgment and Mercy for Israel in Romans 9–11

by Thomas P. Dixon

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481321358

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-08-29

Imprint: Baylor University Press

288 Pages

Romans 9-11 is one of the most controversial passages in Paul's corpus. Efforts to reconcile chapter 9 with chapter 11 are disparate, and the dearth of scholarly interest in the subject of wrath often...

Being and Becoming

Human Transformation in the Letters of Paul

by Frederick David Carr

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481317269

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

366 Pages

In Being and Becoming, Frederick David Carr offers a fresh examination of the theme of human transformation and identity in Paul's letters. Carr structures his investigation beneath two...

Messianic High Christology

New Testament Variants of Second Temple Judaism

by Ruben A. Bühner

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481315401

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-09-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

244 Pages

The depiction of Christ as divine is often assumed to be the categorical difference between early Jewish messianism and New Testament Christology. Despite the prolific accomplishments of recent scholarship...

Reading Romans Backwards

A Gospel of Peace in the Midst of Empire

by Scot McKnight

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9781481308786

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-09-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2021-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

236 Pages

To read Romans from beginning to end, from letter opening to final doxology, is to retrace the steps of Paul. To read Romans front to back was what Paul certainly intended. But to read Romans forward...

John and the Others

Jewish Relations, Christian Origins, and the Sectarian Hermeneutic

by Andrew J. Byers

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481315906

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

255 Pages

The Johannine literature has inspired the Church's christological creeds, prompted its Trinitarian formulations, and resourced its ecumenical and social movements. However, while confessional readers...

A Companion to the New Testament

The General Letters and Revelation

by Matthew L. Skinner

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481315142

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

159 Pages

A Companion to the New Testament draws readers deep inside the New Testament by providing a basic orientation to its literary contours and its ways of talking about theological matters. Designed especially...

Sinners

Jesus and His Earliest Followers

by Greg Carey

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481314770

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

235 Pages

How did early Christians remember Jesus--and how did they develop their own "Christian" identities and communities? In this accessible and revelatory book, Greg Carey explores how transgression contributed...

A Companion to the New Testament

Paul and the Pauline Letters

by Matthew L. Skinner

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481315081

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

315 Pages

In Quest of the Historical Pharisees

Edited by Jacob Neusner and Bruce D. Chilton

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481314657

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

522 Pages

This work sketches the many portraits of the Pharisees that emerge from ancient sources. Based upon the Gospels, the writings of Paul, Josephus, the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and archeology, the volume...

A Companion to the New Testament

The Gospels and Acts

by Matthew L. Skinner

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481315067

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

284 Pages

Teaching Romans Backwards

A Study Guide to "Reading Romans Backwards" by Scot McKnight

by Becky Castle Miller

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481315128

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: 1845 Books

148 Pages

Teaching Romans Backwards is a study guide to Scot McKnight’s Reading Romans Backwards that helps teachers and students work through the McKnight’s text in an engaging and interactive way....

The Gospel according to Matthew

A Commentary

by Matthias Konradt

Translated by M. Eugene Boring

Price: $89.99

ISBN: 9781481313308

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

480 Pages

Perhaps the most important discovery in the long history of research on the Gospel of Matthew is that the book represents a self-contained literary whole as it participates in a vibrant intertextual...

Paul on Humility

by Eve-Marie Becker

Series edited by Wayne Coppins and Simon Gathercole

Translated by Wayne Coppins

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481312998

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-08-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-08-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

211 Pages

Humility in the modern world is neither well understood nor well received. Many see it as a sign of weakness; others decry it as a Western construct whose imposition onto marginalized persons only perpetuates...

The Historiographical Jesus

Memory, Typology, and the Son of David

by Anthony Le Donne

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481313636

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-03-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2020-03-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

324 Pages

The Historiographical Jesus introduces a new theory and approach for studying the life of Jesus. Anthony Le Donne uses the precepts of social memory theory to identify "memory refraction" in the Jesus...

What Are the Gospels?

A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography

by Richard A. Burridge

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481308755

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-03-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2020-02-24

Imprint: Baylor University Press

524 Pages

The publication of Richard Burridge’s What Are the Gospels? in 1992 inaugurated a transformation in Gospel studies by overturning the previous consensus about Gospel uniqueness. Burridge argued convincingly...

The Faithfulness of the Risen Christ

"Pistis" and the Exalted Lord in the Pauline Letters

by David J. Downs and Benjamin J. Lappenga

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481310901

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2019-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2019-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

214 Pages

The pistis Christou construction in Paul’s letters has ignited heated debates among Pauline scholars and theologians. On the one side, some claim that the phrase denotes human faith placed ...

Resurrection Logic

How Jesus' First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead

by Bruce D. Chilton

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481310635

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2019-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2019-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

319 Pages

Death does not speak the final word. Resurrection does. Christianity stands or falls with this central confession: God raised Jesus from the dead.Bruce Chilton investigates the Easter event of Jesus...

Savior of the World

A Theology of the Universal Gospel

by Carlos Raúl Sosa Siliezar

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481309950

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2019-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2019-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

254 Pages

The Gospel of John has long been understood as a sectarian text, one that reinforces the social and religious isolation of a Johannine community. Savior of the World: A Theology of the Universal...

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