TIMOTHY BEAL Florence Harkness Professor of Religion Chair, Department of Religious Studies Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7112 216-368-2221 /
[email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D., Emory University, Graduate Division of Religion, 1995 (Old Testament/Hebrew Bible). Dissertation: “Gender, Ethnicity, and Annihilation in Esther.” Carol A. Newsom, director. Certificate in Women’s Studies, Emory University, 1995. Rebecca Chopp, director. M.Div., Columbia Theological Seminary, 1991. B.A., Seattle Pacific University, 1986 (English and secondary education). PROFESSIONAL HISTORY FACULTY POSITIONS Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, Case Western Reserve University, 2002 to present. Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Case Western Reserve University, 2015 to present. Nida Professor, Nida School of Translation Studies, San Pellegrino University, May- June 2014. Harkness Associate Professor of Biblical Literature, Case Western Reserve University, 1999-2002. Director, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University, 2003-2007. Associate Director, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, 2002-2003. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Eckerd College, 1994-1999; secondary appointments in Women’s and Gender Studies and Environmental Studies. Beal, 2 Honourary Lecturer, University of Glasgow, Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts, summer 1997. Adjunct Professor in Hebrew Exegesis, Columbia Theological Seminary, 1993- 1994. Teaching Assistant, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, spring 1993. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS, AUTHORED Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of An Accidental Book (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). Mariner paperback, 2012. Timothy Beal, Biblical Literacy: The Essential Bible Stories Everyone Needs to Know (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2009). Paperback edition, 2010.