Ehud Ben Zvi is a (long-time) professor in the dept. of History & Classics at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has authored or (co)-edited more than twenty volumes and written numerous essays primarily on ancient Israel, its intellectual history, social memory, historiography, and prophetic books. He explores the ways in which ancient Israelites construed their past and the significance of these images of the past for them. His recent work has focused, though not exclusively, in matters of Social Memory in late Persian/early Hellenistic Israel.A former president of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (CSBS), founding editor of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, and founding co-editor of the SBL series Ancient Near East Monographs (ANEM/MACO), he has organized, chaired or co-chaired numerous research groups. Currently he serves in the Board ("The Committee") of the European Association of Biblical Studies and as Chair of the International Cooperation Initiative (ICI) of the Society of Biblical Literature.