Hector Avalos is associate professor of religious studies and chair of the US Latino Studies Program at Iowa State University. Besides being the author of Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East in the Harvard Semitic Monograph series, Avalos serves on the editorial board for the translation of Luis Alonso Schoekel's Diccionario Biblico Hebreo-Espanol. He is also the former chair of the Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group in the American Academy of Religion.
