by Timothy Beal
See also Tyndale House
Taylor, Mark C., 201
Temple, Jerusalem
about, 97
destruction, 92, 153, 154
Jesus and, 99
Ten Commandments, 31, 155, 203
Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes (1935), 10
testimonia
early Christians, 102, 115, 214
Jewish tradition/Scripture, 93–94, 102, 105, 108, 190
Thecla, 109
theodicy
about, 160–63
argument in Bible, 163–68
Job vs. Deuteronomy, 163–68, 185, 223
polyvocality of Bible and, 160–63
Trial of God, The (Wiesel), 166–67
Theophilus, 97
Thomas, Gospel of, 103–4, 110
Thomas Nelson
about, 34, 206, 208, 210
Bible versions/sales, 34, 206–7, 212
Biblezines/value-added Bibles, 42, 43, 44–45, 47, 49, 51, 207–8
celebrity-authored Bibles, 51
felt needs and, 44–45
See also specific Bibles
Thuesen, Peter J., 141, 203, 221
“thumb Bibles,” 137, 137
time capsule/Voyager Golden Record, 176
Timothy, 24, 106, 216–17
Tobit, 120
Torah
about, 185
discrepancies, 172
early Christians and, 99, 101, 102, 106
Gospel of Luke and, 99
Jesus and, 99, 186
Paul and, 101
polyglot Bibles and, 124
rereadings and, 187–88, 196
social justice, 157–58
synagogue service and, 92
translated for Ptolemy II, 93
translation legend, 93
understanding, 187–89, 196
versions, 93, 94
Torah scrolls
making/storing, 76
as traditional icon, 5
Tov Emmanuel, 215
traditional icon vs. cultural icon, 5
translators/translations of Bible
“Basic English,” 139
“Bible market” and, 141
doubts about, 141
first woman translator, 139
formal equivalence, 59, 61
functional equivalence, 59–64
homosexuality, 58–59
interpretation/ambiguities and, 58–61, 62–64
overview, 58–64
Psalm 1 example, 61–63
universal translation idea and, 140–45
verse parallelism and, 61–62, 63
“Virgin” Birth and, 142, 143
Trial of God, The (Wiesel), 166–67, 175–76
Twain, Mark, 155, 159
Tyndale House
about, 15–16, 17, 34
handbag/Bible combination, 49
interpretation/translation, 58–59
manga Bibles, 64–65, 67–68, 209–10
value-added Bibles, 49, 58
Way, The: The Living Bible Illustrated, 15–18, 16, 17, 34, 71–72
See also specific Bibles
Tyndale House Foundation, 204
Tyndale, William, 16, 156
U
Union Theological Seminary, 9–10
univocality
Bible and, 148–49, 179
effects, 149, 171
V
value-added Bibles
about, 144–45
American Bible Society and, 135, 136, 137–38
biblical ambiguities and, 53, 54, 56, 57–58
biblical text and, 49–50, 54, 55–58, 144–45
early versions, 136–40, 137, 138
ethnic groups and, 50–51
felt needs and, 50, 54, 57, 58
gendered Bibles/gender stereotypes, 51–54, 208
homosexuality and, 55–57
interpretation by, 55–59, 68–69
liberal/progressive versions, 68
target reader, 3–4, 50–52
translations and, 58–59
See also Biblezines; specific Bibles
Victorian era
family Bible and, 139–40
ideals, 139–40
Vigilantes of Christendom: The Story of the Phineas Priesthood, 156–57
Virgin Birth, 142, 143
Visotzky, Burton, 225
Voice, The, New Testament translation, 212
Voyager Golden Record/time capsule, 176
Voyager 1, 176
Vulgate Bibles
about, 119–20, 121, 124–26, 127, 128–29, 147
comparison to polyglot Bibles, 122, 123, 124, 126
Latin Vulgate, 122, 123, 124, 125, 127
W
Walton, Brian, 124, 126
Walton’s (London) Polyglot Bible, 124–26, 127, 128
waterproof Bibles, 49, 137–38, 138
Waterproof Bible, The, 49
Watts, James W., 203
Way, The: The Living Bible Illustrated
about, 15–18, 16, 17, 34, 71–72
biblical ambiguities and, 17–18
critics of, 72–73
Living Bible, The, text and, 15–16
popularization vs. preservation and, 71–72
Webber, Andrew Lloyd, 18, 20
Wellhausen, Julius, 8–9, 203–4
Westmoreland, Lynn, 31
Whiston, William, 135
white-supremacy groups
Bible and, 156–57
Phineas Priesthood, 156–57
Whole Book of Psalms in Meter According to the Art of Short-writing (Rich), 133, 134
Wicked Bible, 132
“widow’s mite,” 29–30
Wiesel, Elie
about, 165–66
faith and doubt, 175–76
Trial of God, The, 166–67, 175–76
Williams, Megan, 215
World Wide Web/effects, 78–79
Wosh, Peter J., 203, 220
Y
yad, 76
Year of the Bible, 16–17
“young earth” believers, 155
Young Life, 12
Young Life Campaigner groups, 12, 13, 19
Young Life Club meetings, 12
Youth for Christ movement
about, 11, 12, 70–71, 73
Beal family and, 12–13
Campus Life magazine, 15
motto of, 11
Z
Zondervan
about, 34–35, 74, 207, 208, 210
Biblezines/value-added Bibles, 51, 55, 56, 69
manga Bibles, 65–66, 66
About the Author
TIMOTHY BEAL is the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University. He has published eleven books, including Biblical Literacy: The Essential Bible Stories Everyone Needs to Know and Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and one of Publishers Weekly’s ten Best Religion Books of 2005. He has published essays on religion and American culture in the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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