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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...

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...

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...

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...

The Last Will Be First

Divine Judgment in the Gospel of Mark

by M. John-Patrick O'Connor

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481319997

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-07-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-07-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

256 Pages

To contemporary sensibilities, the idea of divine judgment can seem at best off-putting, at worst a reason to jettison the biblical text altogether. Long gone are the days of Puritan preachers and their...

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...

Jesus for Living

Daily Prayers, Wisdom, and Guidance

by Mark Lanier

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781481318808

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-12-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-11-15

Imprint: 1845 Books

383 Pages

A trial lawyer by trade, a Christian by heart--author Mark Lanier has trained in biblical languages and devoted his life to studying and living the Bible. Facing daily the tension between the demands...

Prodigal Christ

A Parabolic Theology

by Kendall Walser Cox

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481313124

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

288 Pages

The Parable of the Prodigal Son stands as one of the most powerful imaginings of the grace of God extended to fallen humanity: its themes of departure, longing, and embrace speak to the very heart of...

Christology, Torah, and Ethics in the Gospel of Matthew

by Matthias Konradt

Translated by Wayne Coppins

Series edited by Wayne Coppins and Simon Gathercole

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481315685

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

256 Pages

Christology, Torah, and Ethics in the Gospel of Matthew, the tenth and final volume in the Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity series, brings together seven of Matthias Konradt’s most...

Hearing and Doing

The Speeches in Acts and the Essence of Christianity

by Christopher R. J. Holmes

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9781481317863

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

214 Pages

In reading Scripture, we encounter not only the living God, but an invitation to the mysteries of the text itself. As readers dig through the soil of the text, they eventually discover living water--a...

Acts 1-14

A Handbook on the Greek Text

by Martin M. Culy, Mikeal C. Parsons and Josiah D. Hall

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481313247

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

474 Pages

In Acts 1-14: A Handbook on the Greek Text, Martin Culy, Mikeal Parsons, and Josiah Hall provide a foundational examination of the Greek text of Acts. The analysis is distinguished by the detailed...

Acts 15-28

A Handbook on the Greek Text

by Martin M. Culy, Mikeal C. Parsons and Josiah D. Hall

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481313254

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

446 Pages

In Acts 15-28: A Handbook on the Greek Text, Martin Culy, Mikeal Parsons, and Josiah Hall provide a foundational examination of the Greek text of Acts. The analysis is distinguished by the detailed...

The Hunger for Home

Food and Meals in the Gospel of Luke

by Matthew Croasmun and Miroslav Volf

Price: $17.99

ISBN: 9781481317665

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-08-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-07-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

114 Pages

What do the fields, rivers, and streams that provide food have to do with the God who created them? How do we become at home in this world where so many hunger for food, for companionship, or for the...

The Gospel according to Luke

Volume II (Luke 9:51–24)

by Michael Wolter

Series edited by Wayne Coppins and Simon Gathercole

Translated by Wayne Coppins and Christoph Heilig

Price: $89.99

ISBN: 9781481306706

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-11-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2021-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

674 Pages

In this fifth volume of the Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity series, Michael Wolter provides a detailed, verse-by-verse interpretation of the Third Evangelist’s Gospel (Luke 9:51-24)....

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...

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...

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

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...

The Parables after Jesus

Their Imaginative Receptions across Two Millennia

by David B. Gowler

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481314107

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

320 Pages

Over the centuries, some interpreters have attempted to explain what parables mean. Other interpreters have endeavored to articulate what parables do--how they "work" rhetorically or poetically. With...

Luke

Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist

by Mikeal C. Parsons

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481315012

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-11-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-11-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

256 Pages

In this volume Mikeal C. Parsons provides an overview of Luke and Acts, reading Luke and Acts in the context of ancient rhetorical criticism as practiced in the Hellenistic world. Parsons first compares...

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...

John 1–10

A Handbook on the Greek Text

by Lidija Novakovic

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481305754

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-04-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2020-03-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

440 Pages

In John 1-10 and John 11-21 Lidija Novakovic provides a foundational analysis of the Greek text of John. The analysis is distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid to the text....

John 11–21

A Handbook on the Greek Text

by Lidija Novakovic

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481312141

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-04-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2020-03-24

Imprint: Baylor University Press

404 Pages

In John 1-10 and John 11-21 Lidija Novakovic provides a foundational analysis of the Greek text of John. The analysis is distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid to the text....

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...

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