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...
Translated by Brian McNeil and Alexander Johannes Edmonds
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481308601
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Paperback
You stars of Anu, I call on you! You stars of Enlil, turn to me!You stars of Ea, all of you together, gather around me!I have offered you a pure sacrifice,I have scattered pure incense to you,I have...
What Jewish Burial Practices Reveal about the Beginning of Christianity
by Craig A. Evans
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481314596
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2020
Format: Hardcover
In Jesus and the Ossuaries, Craig A. Evans helps all readers, expert and layperson alike, understand the importance this recent find might have for the quest for the historical Jesus and any historical...
Negotiating Literary Culture in the Greco-Roman Era
by Sean A. Adams
Price: $89.99
ISBN: 9781481312912
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2020
Format: Hardcover
The ancient world, much like our own, thrived on cultural diversity and exchange. The riches of this social reality are evident in the writings of Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman eras. Jewish authors...
God is unbounded. God became flesh. While these two assertions are equally viable parts of Western Christian religious heritage, they stand in tension with one another. Fearful of reducing God’s...
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....
Only a small fraction of ancient literature survives--less than one percent, estimates reveal. While the reasons vary, it is an irony that Christianity, often regarded as responsible for the proliferation...
In The Other Judaisms of Late Antiquity the late Alan F. Segal is at his very best. This reissued and expanded edition--now containing his celebrated "Heavenly Ascent in Hellenistic Judaism, Early...
Diaspora and 1 Peter’s Invention of God’s Household
by Shively T. J. Smith
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481305488
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2016
Format: Hardcover
In Strangers to Family Shively Smith reads the Letter of 1 Peter through a new model of diaspora. Smith illuminates this peculiarly Petrine understanding of diaspora by situating it among three other...
The Construction of Christian Families in the Greco-Roman World
by Margaret Y. MacDonald
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481302234
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2014
Format: Hardcover
The Power of Children examines Christian teaching about children in the context of family life in the Roman world. Specifically, author Margaret Y. MacDonald measures the impact of the New Testament's...
In this exclusive English edition of the elucidating and award-winning investigation of Archimedes' life, Mario Geymonat provides fresh insights into one of the greatest minds in the history of humankind....
