Timothy Beal

"They welcomed the message very eagerly
and examined the scriptures every day
to see whether these things were so"
--Acts 17:11

As we make our way toward the 2012 elections, many feel tossed to and fro by often contradicting...

"They welcomed the message very eagerly
and examined the scriptures every day
to see whether these things were so"
--Acts 17:11

As we make our way toward the 2012 elections, many feel tossed to and fro by often contradicting...

"They welcomed the message very eagerly
and examined the scriptures every day
to see whether these things were so"
--Acts 17:11

As we make our way toward the 2012 elections, many feel tossed to and fro by often contradicting claims about what...

"They welcomed the message very eagerly
and examined the scriptures every day
to see whether these things were so"
--Acts 17:11

As we make our way toward the 2012 elections, many feel tossed to and fro by often contradicting claims about what...

It was a sunny summer afternoon in 2004, and Clover, our two kids, and I were people-watching from an outdoor café in the charming city of Gröningen, the Netherlands. An older man with a long, white, natty beard and a shabby coat to match was moving from table to table,...

Four hundred years since the King's Printer published the first edition in 1611, the King James Version Bible continues to reign supreme. Not only is it by far the bestselling translation of all time, with more than 5 billion copies sold, it is the very icon of Bibleness, the Book...

People love to argue about the Bible. Whether very many of them are actually reading it is less clear. Take the creationism-versus-evolution debates, which have become a central battleground in the larger atheist-versus-believers debates. Despite more than a century of conflict, few in these debates seem aware that there are...