Prof. Phillip Michael Sherman is a Professor of Religion at Maryville College (Tennessee, USA). He holds a PhD in Hebrew Bible and Classical Jewish Hermeneutics from Emory University. He is the author of Babel’s Tower Translated: Genesis 11 and Ancient Jewish Interpretation (Brill, 2013). He has also published on animals in the Bible, including “Animals,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law (Oxford University Press, 2015), and “The Hebrew Bible and the ‘Animal Turn’” in Currents in Biblical Research 19 (2020).