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...
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...
Paul's Ethnicity Between Continuity and Discontinuity
by Ruben A. Bühner
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481323789
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
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?...
Tradition, Identity, and Christianity's Mother Tongue
by Bruce D. Chilton
Price: $52.99
ISBN: 9781481322232
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
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...
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 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....
Biblical and Multicultural Accounts of Spirits and Exorcism
by Joy L. Vaughan
Price: $69.99
ISBN: 9781481318365
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Hardcover
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 Any notion of supernatural possession is often derided as outdated belief or legend.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 focuses on the many ways Pauline thought and tradition were reinterpreted, reused, reframed, and reconstructed in the first centuries of Christianity....
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...
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...
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...
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: November 2021
Format: Hardcover
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...
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,...
Purpose and Community in Paul's Letter to Philemon
by Stephen E. Young
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481315319
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2021
Format: Hardcover
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....
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 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...
