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The Visible Word of the Unseen God
Reading John Among Rivals Old and New
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Visible Word of the Unseen God
Reading John Among Rivals Old and New
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
Gospel Birth Narratives and Historiography
Reopening a Closed Case
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
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
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
The Last Will Be First
Divine Judgment in the Gospel of Mark
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
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
Jesus for Living
Daily Prayers, Wisdom, and Guidance
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
Prodigal Christ
A Parabolic Theology
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
Christology, Torah, and Ethics in the Gospel of Matthew
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
Hearing and Doing
The Speeches in Acts and the Essence of Christianity
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
Acts 1-14
A Handbook on the Greek Text
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
Acts 15-28
A Handbook on the Greek Text
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
The Hunger for Home
Food and Meals in the Gospel of Luke
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
The Gospel according to Luke
Volume II (Luke 9:51–24)
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
John and the Others
Jewish Relations, Christian Origins, and the Sectarian Hermeneutic
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
Sinners
Jesus and His Earliest Followers
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
In Quest of the Historical Pharisees
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
A Companion to the New Testament
The Gospels and Acts
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
The Parables after Jesus
Their Imaginative Receptions across Two Millennia
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
Luke
Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist
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
The Gospel according to Matthew
A Commentary
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
John 1–10
A Handbook on the Greek Text
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
John 11–21
A Handbook on the Greek Text
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
What Are the Gospels?
A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography
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