Quotes by : Timothy Beal

The Bible appears to be the most revered book never read.

To be sure, all translation is interpretation. ... Be that as it may, functional-equivalence translations,....

We're used to picturing the genealogy of a text like a family tree: one original at the base ascending....

Here and throughout the Gospels, Jesus does not simply cite Scripture as though it were a self-evident,....

Like my peers, I believed that the Bible was God's Word written down for me, answering all my questions....

The icon of the Bible as God's textbook for the world is as bankrupt as the idea that it stands for,....

Mercy, how we do so often love to immortalize those despised and forgotten in life.

In many ways, those dedicated to removing all potential biblical contradictions, to making the Bible....

The idea of the Bible as a divine guidebook, a map for getting through the terra incognita of life, is....

Indeed, like so many encounters with Jesus in the Gospel stories, we might go to the Bible looking for....