History

What happened on this date in church history? From ancient Rome to the twenty-first century, from peasants to presidents, from missionaries to mart...

For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select gro...

Following on from the successful One-Stop Bible Guide and One-Stop Bible Atlas, this guide to the history of the Bible traces its origins and revea...

1789 to 1914 was a time of momentous and often violent change religiously, socially, politically and economically in the western world. In this det...

The Reformation had a radical effect on Scotland not just spiritually but also politically and socially. Given its spiritual decadence in the lead ...

When we picture the first Advent, we see Mary and Joseph huddled by a manger. We picture Gabriel, magi, and shepherds tending their flocks. A shini...

In the pages of this volume the reader will notice that while the historical story line of 1 and 2 Kings has been carefully followed, adequate but ...

Whether or not you see yourself as especially gifted or prepared for your role, you were given to your husband so as to uniquely help him perform t...

Now available in trade paper! Explore the interwoven lives of King Herod and Mary, Mother of Jesus as New York Times bestselling author Kathie Lee ...

The easy accessibility of the Bible in most of the world's major languages can obscure a dramatic and sometimes unexpected story. In Know How We Go...

What does it mean to develop true community in our churches—and how do we get there? For all the vast talk about the nature of the church over the ...

J. Greshem Machen's book Christianity and Liberalism has long been a classic defense of orthodox Christian faith against Liberalism. Published in 1...

Nick Needham here draws pen portraits of twelve shapers of Christianity—those whose thought and writings have profoundly contributed to the way we ...

Popular portrayals of the ancient world often give the impression that the ancients held uniform views of the gods. Recent scholarship, however, ha...

Thoroughly researched and faithfully translated, the Luther's Works series consists of Martin Luther's Bible commentaries, sermons, prefaces, posti...

This book is a facsimile of the original German Book of Concord, published in Dresden in 1580. Aside from the Scriptures, it is the most important ...

Many reasons combine to make this full-scale portrait of Whitefield a biography of impressive importance. First, Whitefield’s life provides in itse...

Throughout much of the twentieth century the Fourth Gospel took a back seat to the Synoptics when it came to historical reliability. Consequently, ...

The making and history of the use of the Bible from leading author/editor team Stephen Miller and Robert Huber, now in a text only edition

Does God really bless a nation that honors Him? After the Revolutionary War, our newborn country went through an exciting era of growth and innova...

This volume provides an authoritative account of evangelicalism from the 1790s to the 1840s, balancing British and American developments and also e...

A challenging, countercultural examination of the necessity and decline of truth--the root of true freedom--in modern culture

A brilliant new study by a leading expert on early Christian theology, examining the rich and varied ways in which the cross of Christ was understo...

From earliest times, man has struggled to control his environment and his fate, and a big part of that has always been his health. From the ancient...

This book, part of Craig’s popular 10-1 series, considers the five principal offerings recorded for us in the first seven chapters of Leviticus. Fi...

What difference does it make to identify Mark's gospel as an ancient biography?Reading the gospels as ancient biographies makes a profound differen...

The second volume in a series that introduces and translates ancient texts that are affiliated in some way with the Old Testament but are not inclu...

Tucker S. Ferda argues that the historical Jesus anticipated his second coming within his generation’s lifetime.

A collection of scholarly essays on the future of historical Jesus studies.

A collection of scholarly essays on the future of Catholic biblical scholarship

A study of historical, cultural, and technological developments during the Victorian age that heightened people’s interest in the Holy Land

Paul Barnett sheds light on the geopolitical context of Jesus’s passion and the birth of the church.

A study of the manuscript history of the New Testament, encompassing its paratexts—titles, cross-references, prefaces, marginalia, and more

A biography of John the Baptist that explores his influence on the history of religion.

What the Rabbis Know That I Never Learned in Church is an eye-opening examination of what Christians can learn about God from the ones who call Him...

This authoritative volume brings together a team of world-class scholars to cover the full range of New Testament backgrounds studies in a concise,...

Every so often, a voice or preacher comes to challenge a city: Augustine in Hippo and Carthage, Savonarola in Florence, Calvin in Geneva and more r...

Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies is a multivolume series that seeks to introduce key ancient texts that form the cultural, historical, ...

Nadim Nassar brings his native Middle Eastern perspective to explore the world into which Jesus was born, its political and religious tensions, the...

Revivalism has always been an important strain in American Protestantism. At times it has been the dominant influence. Often perceived as a home-gr...

In the last century a consensus was established among the majority of New Testament scholars that the account of Paul in Acts is unhistorical and t...