Charles HaltonCharles Halton (Ph.D., Hebrew Union College) taught biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies at Southern Seminary and Hebrew Union College. He translated the cuneiform collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and has contriuted to various assyriological publications including the monograph Reading Akkadian Hymns and Prayers (2011) and the journal Cuneiform Digital Library Notes. He was a fellow of the Advanced Seminar in the Humanities in Venice, Italy. He is currently the managing editor of Marginalia, a magazine of intellectual culture and a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read More Read Less