Michael S. Moore is Director of the Arizona Research Center for the Ancient Near East (ARCANE) in Scottsdale, Arizona (arcaneaz.com). In addition to teaching undergraduates at Arizona State University and graduates at Fuller Theological Seminary, he is the author of several books, articles, and reviews on the great literature of the ancient Near East. His previous Pickwick volumes are WealthWatch: A Study of Socioeconomic Conflict in the Bible (2011) and What Is This Babbler Trying to Say? Essays on Biblical Interpretation (2016).