Books
A New Testament scholar’s work that ranges from the apocalyptic literature of the ancient world to the Christian imagination of the twentieth century.
Between Interpretation & Imagination
C. S. Lewis and the Bible
Drawing on never-before-published marginalia from C. S. Lewis’s personal library, this is the first full-length study of how the twentieth century’s most beloved Christian writer actually read Scripture — direct where Lewis was wrong, generous where he was brilliant, and revelatory on the biblical imagination behind Narnia.
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The Heavenly Book Motif
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume 152
Leslie Baynes’s first book and the work that established her in the study of ancient apocalyptic literature: a study of the “heavenly book” — the books of life, of deeds, and of destiny — across Jewish and Christian apocalypses written between 200 BCE and 200 CE, from 1 Enoch to the Book of Revelation to noncanonical texts like the Shepherd of Hermas and the Odes of Solomon.
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