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.