In praise of Carey Newman

BAYLOR: Carey Newman: How to Rescue a University Press.

When Carey Newman became director of Baylor University Press in 2003 it was teetering on the edge of extinction, as many university presses have in recent years. “I told the university it would take twenty-five years to build up the press,” says Newman. “Ten years to get one-third up the mountain and set up base camp. Ten years to get to the summit and five more to assault it.” A decade later, with net revenues “up 1,500%,” he is happy to state, “We are ahead of schedule.”

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Dr. Newman was also a mover and shaker in the SBL Divine Mediator Figures in Antiquity Group in the 1990s and he and I organized and held an international conference at St. Andrews on the origins of the worship of Jesus in 1998.