Frank Ritchel Ames

Frank Ritchel Ames is Professor and Chair of Medical Informatics at Rocky Vista University, Colorado's new medical college, where he directs the Health Sciences Library and coordinates the ethics curriculum. He is a graduate of the University of Denver's Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management (M.A.), Denver Seminary (M.Div. with honors), and the joint doctoral program of the University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology (Ph.D.), and has served as a librarian, professor, and academic administrator in humanities and sciences. He has contributed to award-winning reference works such as Neal-Schuman's The Medical Library Association's Master Guide to Authoritative Information Resources in the Health Sciences (2011) and de Gruyter's thirty-volume Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (2010); reviews books for the ACRL's Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, and has chaired the editorial review group in medical informatics and medical education for Doody's Review Service. He is coeditor of the Kent Harold Richards Festschrift, Foster Biblical Scholarship (2010), and four SBL volumes on war in ancient Israel, The Prophets Speak on Forced Migration (forthcoming), Warfare, Ritual, and Symbol (2014), Interpreting Exile (2011), and Writing and Reading War (2008). He currently chairs the SBL section on warfare in ancient Israel.