The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo
by A. D. Nock
Introduction by Clare K. Rothschild
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481311588
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2019
Format: Paperback
Originally published in 1933, Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo remains one of the most influential studies of religion in the Hellenistic...
Translated by Shirley C. Guthrie and Charles A. M. Hall
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481309547
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2018
Format: Paperback
Oscar Cullmann's The Christology of the New Testament was the standard student textbook in New Testament courses and the measuring stick for scholarly inquiry into Christology for decades. An enduring...
At the turn of the twentieth century, a group of famed scholars at the University of Göttingen founded a movement that came to be known as the "History of Religions School." In their approach to Christian...
In the early '70s, James M. Robinson (Claremont) and Helmut Koester (Harvard), both students of Bultmann, broke new ground in their Trajectories through Early Christianity. The eight essays that comprise...
Ancient Jewish Monotheism and Early Christian Jesus-Devotion harvests from Larry W. Hurtado’s lifetime of study of the New Testament and the development of early Christianity. Hurtado’s career...
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...
Christological Interpretation of the Old Testament in Early Christianity
by Donald H. Juel
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481307956
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2017
Format: Paperback
While the relationship between Second Temple Jewish exegesis and early Christian exegesis as demonstrated in the New Testament is universally recognized, the reasons for their similarities and differences are...
In Angelomorphic Christology author Charles Gieschen demonstrates that angel and angel-related traditions, especially those built upon the so-called "Angel of the Lord" figure in the Hebrew Bible,...
Ascent and Vision Mysticism in the Gospel of Thomas
by April D. DeConick
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481307925
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2017
Format: Paperback
In Seek to See Him April DeConick argues that the Gospel of Thomas, contrary to the way Thomas is normally understood, does not originate from gnostic traditions. Instead, she proposes that...
Samaritan and Jewish Concepts of Intermediation and the Origin of Gnosticism
by Jarl E. Fossum
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481307932
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2017
Format: Paperback
The relationship among Judaism, Gnosticism, and Christianity perpetually eludes easy description. While it is clear that by the second and third centuries of the Common Era these three religious...
A Study in Early Judaism and in the Christology of the Apocalypse of John
by Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481307987
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2017
Format: Paperback
The public worship of the risen Christ as depicted in John’s Apocalypse directly contradicts the guiding angel’s emphasis that only God should be worshiped (Revelation 19:10; 22:8-9). In Angel...
The earliest Christian communities engaged in bold and imaginative rereadings of their Scriptures--none more astounding and potentially inflammatory than of the passages that focus upon the name and...
Papers from the St Andrews Conference on the Historical Origins of the Worship of Jesus
Edited by Carey C. Newman, James R. Davila and Gladys S. Lewis
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481307970
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2017
Format: Paperback
Second Temple Judaism exerted a profound and shaping influence upon early Christianity. The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism documents this influence by exploring the ways in which the...
Glory formed an essential part of early Christianity’s christological vocabulary. Along with "word," "image," and "wisdom," Glory ( doxa) language worked to define the identity, status, and even uniqueness...
A History of the Belief in Christ from the Beginnings of Christianity to Irenaeus
by Wilhelm Bousset
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781602589872
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2013
Format: Paperback
In Kyrios Christos, Wilhelm Bousset argues that the Hellenistic Church's declaration of "Jesus as Lord" is a transformation of the pre-Christian Judaic community's understanding of Jesus as the Son...
Martin Hengel spent a lifetime studying the first three decades of Christianity--the span from Christ's ascension to Paul's conversion. Between Jesus and Paul represents a collection of six formative...
