Taylor Halverson was a faculty consultant for Brigham Young University’s Center for Teaching and Learning when this was written. He earned his BA in Near Eastern Studies from BYU and an MA in Biblical Studies from Yale; from Indiana University he also earned an MS and a PhD in Instructional Systems Technology, as well as another PhD in Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity. He is fluent in Spanish, Biblical Hebrew, and Greek, and has knowledge of German, French, Akkadian, Ugaritic, both Classical and Egyptian Arabic, Aramaic, and Modern Hebrew.