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A Handbook to Second-Century Christianity

Edited by Michael F. Bird and Scott Harrower

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...

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...

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...

Negotiating Jewishness

Paul's Ethnicity Between Continuity and Discontinuity

by Ruben A. Bühner

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481323789

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-10-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

280 Pages

The assertion that Paul remained a Jew throughout his life requires little further justification. However, questions remain, including, How can his relationship with Judaism be positively articulated?...

History of Early Christianity

Religion, Culture, Identity

by Markus Öhler

Translated by Jason Valdez

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481313957

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-08-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-08-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

320 Pages

The period of early Christianity can only be understood in light of the burgeoning Christian movement’s internal diversity and against the background of the religious world of Greco-Roman antiquity....

Jesus and Other Sons of God

Luke's Christology and Mediterranean Myth

by Daniel B. Glover

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481322089

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-08-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-07-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

314 Pages

In a world full of demigods, heroes, daimones, and Olympians, how did early Christians conceptualize Jesus’s divinity? What symbols, images, and literary motifs were available to them as elements...

Phenomenal Phenomena

Biblical and Multicultural Accounts of Spirits and Exorcism

by Joy L. Vaughan

Price: $69.99

ISBN: 9781481318365

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

275 Pages

Today, the conception of spirits and demons has been mostly consigned to pop culture in films and novels. Any notion of supernatural possession is often derided as outdated belief or legend. The Western...

After Paul

The Apostle's Legacy in Early Christianity

by James W. Aageson

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481318693

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-08-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-07-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

279 Pages

After Paul: The Apostle’s Legacy in Early Christianity focuses on the many ways Pauline thought and tradition were reinterpreted, reused, reframed, and reconstructed in the first centuries of Christianity....

Jesus among the gods

Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World

by Michael F. Bird

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481316750

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

480 Pages

After several centuries of controversy, the early church came to an uneasy consensus that Jesus was both fully human and fully divine. In his divinity, orthodox Christianity claimed, he shared fully...

Qumran and Christian Origins

by Jörg Frey

With Jacob Cerone

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481317641

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-06-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-06-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

503 Pages

Among the archaeological discoveries of the modern era, the Qumran site and the Dead Sea Scrolls are some of the most significant. These finds offer rich understanding of not only Judaism but also the...

Judaism and the Gentiles

Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE)

by Terence L. Donaldson

Price: $74.99

ISBN: 9781481318426

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-04-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-04-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

580 Pages

In the Second-Temple period non-Jews were attracted to Judaism's communal life, religious observance and theological imagination. On the Jewish side, this was matched by the development of several discrete...

A Dangerous Parting

The Beheading of John the Baptist in Early Christian Memory

by Nathan L. Shedd

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481315227

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

228 Pages

Execution by beheading is a highly symbolic act. The grisly image of the severed head evokes a particular social and cultural location, functioning as a channel of figurative discourse specific to a...

King of Kings

God and the Foreign Emperor in the Hebrew Bible

by Justin L. Pannkuk

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481314060

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

304 Pages

From the eighth to second centuries BCE, ancient Israel and Judah were threatened and dominated by a series of foreign empires. This traumatic history prompted serious theological reflection and recalibration,...

Our Brother Beloved

Purpose and Community in Paul's Letter to Philemon

by Stephen E. Young

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481315319

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-08-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-08-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

256 Pages

The Letter to Philemon has been read by generations of interpreters, including towering figures such as John Chrysostom, as having to do with Paul returning the fugitive slave Onesimus to his master....

Introduction to the New Testament

Reference Edition

by Carl R. Holladay

Price: $109.99

ISBN: 9781481315050

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

1008 Pages

Christian interpretation of the Bible is not a simple task. While finding both its beginning and end in the theological claim that Scripture reveals to us "what God has done in Christ," Christian...

The King James Bible and the World It Made

Edited by David Lyle Jeffrey

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481314947

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

209 Pages

The King James translation of the Bible ushered in a new eloquence that until 1611 had not existed in the English language. Four centuries later, the literary and historical power of this Bible continues...

Learning Through Suffering

The Educational Value of Suffering in the New Testament and in Its Milieu

by Charles H. Talbert

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481315104

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

96 Pages

From the various biblical explanations of suffering, this volume chooses to focus on one: suffering sometimes possesses an educational value. It explores the differing versions of this view in Paul,...

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...

The Old Testament in Archaeology and History

Edited by Jennie Ebeling, J. Edward Wright, Mark Elliott and Paul V. M. Flesher

Price: $89.99

ISBN: 9781481309271

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2019-01-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2019-01-04

Imprint: Baylor University Press

686 Pages

One hundred and fifty years of sustained archaeological investigation has yielded a more complete picture of the ancient Near East. The Old Testament in Archaeology and History combines the most significant...

Magdala of Galilee

A Jewish City in the Hellenistic and Roman Period

Edited by Richard Bauckham

Price: $89.99

ISBN: 9781481302937

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2018-09-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

460 Pages

Magdala of Galilee for the first time unifies the results of various excavations of the Galilean city. Here, archaeologists and historians of the Second Temple Period work together to understand the...

Ancient Rhetoric and the New Testament

The Influence of Elementary Greek Composition

by Michael Wade Martin and Mikeal C. Parsons

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481309806

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-08-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2018-08-02

Imprint: Baylor University Press

336 Pages

For the ancient Greeks and Romans, eloquence was essential to public life and identity, perpetuating class status and power. The three-tiered study of rhetoric was thus designed to produce sons worthy...

Exploring Biblical Backgrounds

A Reader in Historical and Literary Contexts

Edited by Derek S. Dodson and Katherine E. Smith

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....

Jesus and the Restoration of Israel

A Critical Assessment of N. T. Wright's "Jesus and the Victory of God"

Edited by Carey C. Newman

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481309783

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-06-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2018-06-04

Imprint: Baylor University Press

313 Pages

N. T. Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God is widely heralded as one of the most significant and brilliantly argued works in the current "third quest" of the historical Jesus. In this second volume...

Civilized Piety

The Rhetoric of "Pietas" in the Pastoral Epistles and the Roman Empire

by T. Christopher Hoklotubbe

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481307178

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2017-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

264 Pages

Early Christians in Asia Minor had to navigate the troubled waters of Roman social, political, and economic life while also preserving their faith. The church faced a double threat: Greeks and Romans...

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