Eric Ziolkowski, H. P. Manson Professor of the English Bible at Lafayette College, is author of numerous books, essays, and articles in religion and literature. The North American senior editor of Literature and Theology: An International Journal of Religion, Theory and Culture (Oxford) for eight years (2004–12), he is also main editor (since 2004) of the prospective 30-volume Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (De Gruyter).