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The Predestinate

Ecclesiastes and the Man Who Outshone the Sun King

by Christopher R. Seitz

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9781481324465

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-09-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

124 Pages

This is an unusual book, rich with intrigue. It is, foremost, a book about Ecclesiastes—not a commentary, not another scholarly monograph, but rather a guide to understanding the angle of vision the...

Psalms 90 –100

A Handbook on the Hebrew Text

by John Screnock

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481310222

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-08-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-08-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

350 Pages

In this volume, John Screnock provides a foundational examination of the Hebrew text of Psalms 90–100. The analysis is distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid to the text. The...

Exodus and Exile

A Concise Biblical Theology

by Karel Deurloo

Translated by David E. Orton

Introduction by Collin Cornell and Joep Dubbink

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9781481323307

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-08-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-07-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

148 Pages

Exodus and Exile is a masterpiece of biblical theology, newly available in English. The capstone work of legendary Dutch teacher Karel Deurloo, the book makes a brief and accessible argument: that...

The Prophet's Anthem

The Song of Deborah and Barak in the Narrative of Judges

by Michelle Knight

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481321594

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-11-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-11-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

207 Pages

Within the chaotic world narrated in the book of Judges, the prophet Deborah spoke under the authority of Israel’s God, interpreting an important battle and calling fellow Israelites to faithfulness....

Divine Rejection

Explorations in the Biblical Portrayals of Esau and King Saul

by R. J. Balfour

Price: $69.99

ISBN: 9781481320511

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-08-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-08-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

288 Pages

Among the most enigmatic passages in the Bible are those featuring God's election of some and rejection of others. While many interpreters appeal to mystery or divine sovereignty as solutions to these...

The Fire and the Cloud

A Biblical Christology

by Chris E. W. Green

Price: $52.99

ISBN: 9781481320504

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-04-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-03-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

382 Pages

The Fire and the Cloud is a non-supersessionist biblical Christology developed from close readings of Israel’s Scriptures. In this work, the second in a trilogy that began with All Things Beautiful:...

The Lord by Wisdom Founded the Earth

Creation and Covenant in Old Testament Theology

by Katharine J. Dell

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481317047

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

252 Pages

In Proverbs, wisdom is personified as a woman who is with God at the creation of the world, delighting in what God has made. In Job, God appears in theophany and describes the wonders of the earth and...

Cursing with God

The Imprecatory Psalms and the Ethics of Christian Prayer

by Trevor Laurence

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481316477

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-08-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-07-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

416 Pages

To the modern ear, the concept of cursing sounds otherworldly, mystical, abhorrent. For some the idea may evoke images of terror--images not of God but of the devil. How then are Christians to understand...

Prophetic Disability

Divine Sovereignty and Human Bodies in the Hebrew Bible

by Sarah J. Melcher

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781481310246

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

145 Pages

At first glance it may seem that the Hebrew prophets offer little resolution on contemporary concerns of inclusivity and defense for persons deemed "other." Bound by their time and culture, the prophets'...

Deuteronomy 12-26

A Handbook on the Hebrew Text

by Bill T. Arnold and Paavo N. Tucker

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481300605

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-09-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

301 Pages

In this volume, Bill Arnold and Paavo Tucker provide a foundational examination of the Hebrew text of Deuteronomy 12-26. The analysis is distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid...

In a Vision of the Night

Job, Cormac McCarthy, and the Challenge of Chaos

by Philip S. Thomas

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481315982

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

247 Pages

How is life possible in a world of evil, suffering, and chaos? Christians have historically been inept at offering adequate answers as to why people’s lives are derailed by sudden chaos and, even...

Between Hearing and Silence

A Study in Old Testament Theology

by John Kessler

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481313766

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-04-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2021-03-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

288 Pages

When the Old Testament refers to silence, either the silence of persons or of God, that silence conveys a diversity of meanings. It may indicate a breakdown in the divine-human relationship, or the...

Introduction to the Septuagint

Edited by Siegfried Kreuzer

Translated by David A. Brenner and Peter Altmann

Price: $109.99

ISBN: 9781481311465

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2019-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2019-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

702 Pages

The Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible created by Jews seeking a place of legitimacy for diaspora Jewishness and faith among the traditions of Hellenistic culture, was a monumental...

The Holy Spirit before Christianity

by John R. Levison

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481310031

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2019-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2019-09-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

272 Pages

With his latest book, The Holy Spirit before Christianity, John R. Levison again changes the face and foundation of Christian belief in the Holy Spirit. The categories Christians have used, the boundaries...

Qoheleth

A Handbook on the Hebrew Text

by Robert D. Holmstedt, John A. Cook and Phillip S. Marshall

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781602587328

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-10-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2017-09-19

Imprint: Baylor University Press

364 Pages

In this volume, Robert D. Holmstedt, John A. Cook, and Phillip S. Marshall provide a foundational analysis of the Hebrew text of Qoheleth. Distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid...

The Psalter as Witness

Theology, Poetry, and Genre

Edited by W. Dennis Tucker, Jr. and W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481305563

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-03-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2017-02-14

Imprint: Baylor University Press

216 Pages

The Psalter as Witness considers the complexity of the Psalms as well as their role in bearing witness to the theological claims that comprise Israel’s traditions. While no single volume can readily...

God, Neighbor, Empire

The Excess of Divine Fidelity and the Command of Common Good

by Walter Brueggemann

Foreword by Tim A. Dearborn

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9781481305426

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2016-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2016-09-13

Imprint: Baylor University Press

179 Pages

Justice, mercy, and the public good all find meaning in relationship--a relationship dependent upon fidelity, but endlessly open to the betrayals of infidelity. This paradox defines the story of God...

Deuteronomy 1-11

A Handbook on the Hebrew Text

by James E. Robson

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781602585737

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2016-08-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2016-07-17

Imprint: Baylor University Press

384 Pages

In this volume, James Robson provides a foundational analysis of the Hebrew text of Deuteronomy 1-11. Distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid to the Hebrew text, Deuteronomy...

Belonging in Genesis

Biblical Israel and the Politics of Identity Formation

by Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781602587472

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2016-03-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2016-02-13

Imprint: Baylor University Press

179 Pages

Genesis calls its readers into a vision of human community unconstrained by the categories that dominate modern thinking about identity. Genesis situates humanity within a network of nurture that encompasses...

After Exegesis

Feminist Biblical Theology

Edited by Patricia K. Tull and Jacqueline E. Lapsley

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481303804

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2015-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2015-09-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

312 Pages

After Exegesis frames an inclusive feminist biblical theology, exploring creation, providence, divine judgment, salvation, praise, justice, authority, inclusion, the "other," moral agency, suffering,...

Esther

A Handbook on the Hebrew Text

by John Screnock and Robert D. Holmstedt

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781602586789

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2015-10-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2015-09-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

303 Pages

This handbook in the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible series provides students of Hebrew with the translation of Esther paired with an exhaustive word by word morphological analysis of the text....

Ice Axes for Frozen Seas

A Biblical Theology of Provocation

by Walter Brueggemann

Edited by Davis Hankins

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481302180

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2014-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2014-08-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

430 Pages

Endlessly cunning, elusive, and playful--the Bible consistently unsettles even as it assures. Walter Brueggemann reveals exactly how Scripture exposes the inadequacy of the assumptions and habits that...

Genesis 37-50

A Handbook on the Hebrew Text

by David W. Baker

With Jason A. Riley

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781932792683

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2014-08-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2014-07-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

524 Pages

This handbook in the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible series provides students of Hebrew with the translation of Genesis 37-50 paired with an exhaustive word by word morphological analysis of the...

Reading the Sealed Book

Old Greek Isaiah and the Problem of Septuagint Hermeneutics

by J. Ross Wagner

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781602589803

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2014-01-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2013-12-17

Imprint: Baylor University Press

308 Pages

A translated text is laced with interpretive assumptions. By focusing on the Septuagint, J. Ross Wagner highlights the creative theology hidden in translation. His model couples patient investigation...

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