Timothy Beal is Distinguished University Professor, Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, and Director of [...] at Case Western Reserve University. He has published essays on religion and culture for the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Wall Street Journal, [...], and Washington Post and is the author of several books, including The Rise and Fall of the Bible and When Time Is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene.

Introduction to the Second Edition Introduction to the First Edition: Religion and Its Monsters, Monsters and Their Religion Part One: Religion and Its Monsters 1. Chaos Gods: Cosmic Horrors from the Ancient Near East 2. The Bible and Horror: Making and Unmaking the World 3. The Sleep of Wisdom: Job and the Abyss of Suffering 4. From the Whirlwind: Where God Outmonsters Job 5. Dinner and a Show: Watching and Eating Monsters with the Rabbis 6. To the Devil: John's Great Red Dragon Part Two: Monsters and Their Religion 7. New Monsters in Old Skins: Modern Awe and Order 8. Other Gods: Colonialism and Its Monsters 9. The Blood Is the Life: Ritual Purity and Danger in Dracula 10. Screening Monsters: Movie Time, Sacred Time 11. Ecomonsters: The Return of the Ecologically Repressed 12. Our Monsters, Ourselves: Sacred Horror Culture 13. Gods, Monsters, and Machines: Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene Conclusion: Here Be Monsters. Notes Index