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Timothy Beal
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Timothy Beal is Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University. He has published 12 books, including The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book, Biblical Literacy: The Essential Bible Stories Everyone Needs to Know (now available as an audiobook), and Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and one of Publishers Weekly's 10 best religion books of 2005. He has published essays in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is also Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts (in progress).

Blog Entries by Timothy Beal

Open Letter to Rev. Billy Graham

(931) Comments | Posted October 22, 2012 | 2:18 PM

Rev. Graham,

Over the past several days, newspapers across the country have been running a full-page ad with your picture and a letter from you imploring Americans to "vote for biblical values" this November by supporting candidates who will promote, among other things, "the biblical definition of marriage...

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BibliFact Roundup: Conventional Snippets of Uplift and Hope

(2) Comments | Posted October 2, 2012 | 6:44 PM

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"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...

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BibliFact Roundup: Southern Baptists and Pacquiao vs. Savage on Sex and Marriage

(48) Comments | Posted July 2, 2012 | 4:30 PM

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"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...

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BibliFact Brief: Billy Graham and Marriage in the Biblical Sense

(184) Comments | Posted May 4, 2012 | 8:00 AM

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"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...

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BibliFact Roundup #3: Biblical Aliens, SB 1070 and a Jericho March

(18) Comments | Posted April 30, 2012 | 1:21 PM

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"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...

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BibliFact Roundup #2: Bible-n-Eggs with the President

(127) Comments | Posted April 7, 2012 | 9:00 AM

"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...

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BibliFact Roundup #1: Visions, Vomit and Phony Eco-theology

(52) Comments | Posted March 27, 2012 | 10:36 AM

"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...

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There's No Such Thing As Osama Bin Laden

(4) Comments | Posted May 25, 2011 | 12:13 PM

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,...

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Will the King James Bible Survive?

(497) Comments | Posted March 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

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...

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In the Beginning(s): Appreciating the Complexity of the Bible

(1040) Comments | Posted February 15, 2011 | 7:41 PM

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...

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