Timothy Beal is the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University and editor in chief of the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts. He has published several books, including The Rise and Fall of the Bible (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), Biblical Literacy: The Essential Bible Stories Everyone Needs to Know (HarperOne, 2009), and Roadside Religion (Beacon, 2006). He has written essays on the Bible and culture for the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Huffington Post, among others.