Quotes by : Timothy Beal

Biblical interpretation is not a passive matter. It requires our own active negotiation. When we pretend....

Bible publishers are not selling Bibles. What they're selling is that iconic idea of the Bible. Their....

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....

For many potential Bible readers, this expectation that the Bible is univocal is paralyzing. You notice....

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

About two-thirds of Americans believe that the Bible "answers all or most of the basic questions of life"—and....

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....