Steven W. Holloway received his MA and PhD from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He is the author of Aššur is King! Aššur is King! Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Brill, 2002), editor of Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2006), and the author of numerous articles on the Bible, the ancient Near East, and the history of the disciplines. He is currently an Indexer-Analyst for the American Theological Library Association.
This volume consists of 14 papers delivered by Assyriologists and biblical specialists at the 2007 Society of Biblical Literature congress in sessions devoted to the scholarly legacy of the late Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Professor of the Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.