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A Handbook to Second-Century Christianity
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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...

A Handbook to Second-Century Christianity
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
Adam’s Wisdom and Israel’s Law
Paul, Early Judaism, and Natural Law Tradition
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
Aramaic Jesus
Tradition, Identity, and Christianity's Mother Tongue
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
Negotiating Jewishness
Paul's Ethnicity Between Continuity and Discontinuity
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
History of Early Christianity
Religion, Culture, Identity
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
Jesus and Other Sons of God
Luke's Christology and Mediterranean Myth
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
Phenomenal Phenomena
Biblical and Multicultural Accounts of Spirits and Exorcism
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
After Paul
The Apostle's Legacy in Early Christianity
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
Jesus among the gods
Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World
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
Qumran and Christian Origins
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
Judaism and the Gentiles
Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE)
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
A Dangerous Parting
The Beheading of John the Baptist in Early Christian Memory
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
King of Kings
God and the Foreign Emperor in the Hebrew Bible
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
Our Brother Beloved
Purpose and Community in Paul's Letter to Philemon
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
Introduction to the New Testament
Reference Edition
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
The King James Bible and the World It Made
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
Learning Through Suffering
The Educational Value of Suffering in the New Testament and in Its Milieu
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
The Historiographical Jesus
Memory, Typology, and the Son of David
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 Old Testament in Archaeology and History
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
Magdala of Galilee
A Jewish City in the Hellenistic and Roman Period
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
Ancient Rhetoric and the New Testament
The Influence of Elementary Greek Composition
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
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
Jesus and the Restoration of Israel
A Critical Assessment of N. T. Wright's "Jesus and the Victory of God"
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
Civilized Piety
The Rhetoric of "Pietas" in the Pastoral Epistles and the Roman Empire
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