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 is not a book of answers but a library of questions.

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,....

The history of the Bible is one of perpetual revolution. In that light, we might begin to think about....

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

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