Daniel I. Block (DPhil, Liverpool) is Gunther H. Knoedler Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College in Illinois. He contributes regularly to scholarly conventions and journals and he lectures frequently internationally. Among his numerous publications are major commentaries on Ezekiel and Judges and Ruth; the monograph, The Gods of the Nations: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern National Theology, and "All Creatures Great and Small: Recovering a Deuteronomic Theology of Animals," in Essays on the Old Testament and Issues in the Life of God's People; Festschrift for Elmer Martens.