Books published by Baylor University Press

Turmoil still grips the Middle East and fear now paralyzes post-9/11 America. The comforts and challenges of this book are thus as timely as when first published in 1987. With new reflections on the future of Judaism and Israel, Ellis underscores the enduring problem of justice.

Includes a series of essays challenging the prevailing sensibilities of both Jews and Christians. In the call for accountability and commitment, this title asks whether the boundaries that Jews and Christians claim continue to provide the foundations for faith and the embrace of the covenant.

Tracks the changes in Protestant American funerals over the last one hundred years. Lucy Bregman she reveals how Americans' comprehension of death has shifted in the last century - and why we must find ways to move beyond it.

Rather than devote space to the type of theological and exegetical comments found in most commentaries, this series focuses on the Hebrew text and its related issues, syntactic and otherwise. The volumes provide guides to understanding the linguistic characteristics of the texts from which the messages of the texts may then be derived.

Provides expert, comprehensive guidance in answering significant questions about the Hebrew text. While reflecting the latest advances in scholarship on Hebrew grammar and linguistics, the book utilizes a style that is lucid enough to serve as a useful agent for teaching and self-study.

In his analysis of the Greek text of 1 Peter, Mark Dubis provides students with a guide through some of the most difficult syntactic challenges of the Greek language. Introducing readers to the most recent developments in grammatical and linguistic scholarship, Dubis includes an overview of Greek word order and the construction of middle voice.

The language and lessons of both the Old and New Testaments were often brought to bear on many civil rights events and issues - from local desegregation to national policy matters. This volume chronicles how movement leaders and local activists moved a nation to live up to the biblical ideals it often professed but infrequently practiced.

Eight brilliant and original American thinkers - Edwards, Franklin, John Adams, Emerson, Peirce, William James, Dewey, and Santayana - are the subject of this widely admired book by one of America's foremost writers of intellectual history.

The first volume of Baylor's official in-depth history, covering the crucial and turbulent 1845-1886 era of the university's career at its birthplace.

Advocates a canonical approach to biblical interpretation, one that does not allow the New Testament to eclipse the interpretation of the Old Testament. In so doing, Seitz directly challenges the way in which the Old Testament is currently being read and taught in theological seminaries.

In the lauded Faith of the Founders, revered historian Edwin Gaustad provides a careful consideration of the developing relationship between religion and the state after the American Revolution. Gaustad identifies seven varying - sometimes contrary - perspectives on religion that guided the nation's founders.

By placing the most promising postmodern insights in dialogue with eighteenth-century critics of the Enlightenment, Daniel Ritchie argues that we can begin to overcome post-Enlightenment fragmentation without abandoning either coherence or the valid insights of modern and postmodern thought.

Powerfully demonstrates the disciplinary fusion of Renaissance biblical scholarship - in which the Bible remained the primary locus for cultural, anthropological, and psychological reflection - against modern historians' penchant for bracketing all things religious when reimagining the Renaissance world.

Explores the terrain of the cultural history of biblical interpretation. Jeffrey is not content to chart biblical scholarship and how it has both influenced and been influenced by culture. Instead, he chooses to focus upon the "art" of Biblical interpretation - how sculptors, musicians, poets, novelists, and painters have "read" the Bible.

Baptism has been a contested practice from the very beginning of the church. In this volume, Ben Witherington rethinks the theology of baptism and does so in constant conversation with the classic theological positions and central New Testament texts.

A tribute to the scholarship and friendship of Larry Hurtado (University of Edinburgh) and Alan Segal (Barnard College), two scholars who have contributed significantly to the contemporary understanding of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity.

Andrew Young is one of the most important figures of the US civil rights movement and one of America's best-known African American leaders. In describing his life through his election to Congress in 1972, this memoir provides revelatory, riveting reading.

Argues that there is in US politics an "evangelical centre" of voters who do not identify with the politics and religion of either the right or left. Although evangelical Christians are portrayed by the media as conservatives, Gushee claims that the movement includes nearly even numbers of voters on the right, in the centre, and on the left.

A rich collection that presents the depth of American generosity. Drawing upon an abundant variety of genres - myths, proverbs, poems, letters, short stories, news stories, folktales, sermons, and essays - this collection documents the religious dimensions of American philanthropy.

As America becomes increasingly pluralistic, with more and more groups contributing to the nation's religious mosaic, new religious movements may well play an increasing role in the course of religious liberty in America. This book explores the problems and possibilities posed by new religious movements for religious liberty in America.

Presents eight studies of the Edwards Plateau originally presented at a symposium sponsored by the Southwestern Association of Naturalists. The book provides an introduction to the vegetational landscape, including photographs, research about the history of vegetation patterns, and quantitative information on current structure and succession.

Brings into conversation leading contemporary scholars who articulate how the celebrated King James translation repeatedly influenced the language of politics, statecraft, and English literature while offering Christians a unique resource for living the faith.

Offers a guide to read the Old Testament in its original language by teaching the basics of Hebrew grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. The step-by-step approach offers thorough illustrations by means of biblical examples, and all the basic elements of the Hebrew grammar are logically presented.

Chronicles the history of interpretation of the Fourth Gospel in the twentieth century. Robert Kysar's study reveals four distinct critical approaches to understanding the Fourth Gospel - historical, theological, literary, and postmodernist readings. The use of these methods mirrors the history of biblical studies.

The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury - and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee Pearcy chronicles how this came to be.

Managing the challenges of governance is more than merely managing people and resources; it is about managing the values that intersecting cultures attach to people and resources. The Ethics of Public Administrationprovides an exploratory introduction to the history and trends of major ethical cultures around the globe.

In his day, John Wesley offered important insights on how to obtain knowledge of God that readily bears fruit in our own times. As premiere Wesleyan scholar William Abraham shows, Wesley's most famous spiritual experience is rife with philosophical significance and implications.

Given the 2005 Award of Merit by Christianity Today, Christopher Evans' The Kingdom is Always but Coming follows the life and career of American theologian Walter Rauschenbusch, the preeminent spokesperson at the center of the social gospel movement.

Hailed as Will Campbell's most literary work, Providence chronicles the more than 170-year history of a square mile of plantation land in Holmes County, Mississippi. Shifting between history and autobiography, Campbell illustrates the quest for justice among the Choctaws, African-Americans, and Whites on a parcel of land designated Section 13.

In this diary Marc Ellis recounts his spiritual journey among the poor in New York City in the early 1970s. What he witnessed at the Catholic Worker continues to increase in our world today: homelessness, destitution, and other forms of poverty. Yet, the spiritual life he experienced is even more real today as well.