HÉCTOR
IGNACIO AVALOS nació en México (1958) en el seno de una familia
pentecostal. Actualmente es un autor humanista secular, profesor de estudios
religiosos en la Universidad Estatal de
Iowa, director del Journal for the Critical Study of Religion
(Revista para el estudio crítico de la religión), y miembro
del comité editorial de Razonamientos
(Revista
mexicana del pensamiento humanista) y de la Revista
Peruana de Filosofía Aplicada.
Correo electrónico: HectorAvalos@aol.com
ESTUDIOS:
PUBLICACIONES
LIBROS:
¿Se
puede saber si Dios existe? (Lima: AERPFA, 1999)
Health Care and the
Rise of Christianity (El cuidado de la salud y la aparición
del cristianismo, Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Press, 1999)
Illness and Heatlh
Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece, Israel
and Mesopotamia (Enfermedad y cuidado de la salud en el antiguo Cercano
Oriente: Harvard Semitic Museum Monographs 54; Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1995)
ARTÍCULOS Y OTROS
ESCRITOS (ALGUNOS EJEMPLOS):
"Daniel 9:24-25 and Mesopotamian
Temple Rededications," Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (3, 1998) 507-11.
"The Gospel of Lucas
Gavilán as Postcolonial Biblical Exegesis,"Semeia 75 (1996) 87-105.
Aparición real de 1998.
"A Ladino Version of
the Targum of Ruth," Estudios Bíblicos 54 (2, 1996) 165-182.
"Ancient Medicine: In
Case of Emergency, Contact Your Local Prophet," Bible Review 11 (June,
1995) 26-35, 48. *Revista semi-popular revisada por un comité editorial.
"The Biblical Sources
of Columbus's Libro de las profecías,"Traditio 49 (1994) 331-335.
"The Comedic Function
of the Enumerations of Officials and Instruments in Daniel 3," Catholic
Biblical Quarterly 53 (4, 1991) 580-88.
"Exodus 22:9 and Akkadian
Legal Formulae," Journal of Biblical Literature 109 (1, 1990) 116-17.
CAPÍTULOS/ARTÍCULOS
EN LIBROS Y OBRAS DE REFERENCIA:
"Disability and Liturgy
in Ancient and Modern Religious Traditions," in Nancy Eiesland and Don
Saliers, eds., Human Disability and the Service of God: Reassessing Religious
Practice (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998) 35-54.
"Medicine," The Oxford
Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, E. Meyers, ed., (5 volumes;
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) 3:450-459.
"Columbus as Biblical
Exegete: A Study of the Libro de las profecías," en Religion in
the Age of Exploration: The Case of Spain and New Spain, B. Le Beau and
M. Mor, eds., (Omaha: Creighton University Press, 1996) 59-80.
"Evangelicalism," and
"Protestantism," in The Latino Encyclopedia, Richard Chabrán and
Rafael Chabrán, eds., (6 volumes; New York: Marshall Cavendish,
1996) 560-563; 1307-1310 respectivamente.
"Legal and Social Institutions
of Canaan and Ancient Israel," Civilizations of the Ancient Near East,
J. Sasson, ed. (4 volumes; New York: Scribner's, 1995) Vol 1: 615-631.
"Animals," "Esau," "Goliath,"
"Medicine," and "Satan," for The Oxford Companion to the Bible (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1993).
"Arpad, " "Berothah,"
"Berothai," "Cun," "Ivvah," "Kadesh-on-the-Orontes," "Kue," "Sepharvaim,"
"Sibraim," and "Mt. Zaphon," en The Anchor Bible Dictionary (Garden City,
NY: Doubleday, 1992).
RESEÑAS DE LIBROS:
Joe Ator, The Return
to Credibility: Scientific Discoveries Support Belief in Bible's Creation
Account (Vantage Press, 1997) The Journal for the Critical Study of Religion.
3 (1, 1998) 71-73.
Michael Drosnin, The
Bible Code (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), en The Journal for the
Critical Study of Religion. 3 (1, 1998). 67-70.
P. W. L. Walker, Jesus
and the Holy City: New Testament Perspectives on Jerusalem (Grand Rapids:
Eerdman's, 1996) en Near Eastern Archaeology 61 (1, March, 1998) 68-69.
Marten Stol, Epilepsy
in Babylonia (Cuneiform Monographs 2. Groningen: Styx Publications, 1993)
in Journal of Cuneiform Studies 47 (1995; actually published en 1997) 119-121.
Bernard M.Levinson, ed.
Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law: Revision, Interpolation,
and Development. (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994) en Hebrew
Studies 37 (1996) 153-156.
Eldin Villafañe,The
Liberating Spirit: Toward an Hispanic Pentecostal Social Ethic (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1993) in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 63 (4, 1995)
870-72.
Joaquín González
Echegaray, El Creciente Fértil y la Biblia (Estella, 1991) en Old
Testament Abstracts 15 (2, 1992) 275-6.
Cyrus Gordon et al.,
Eblaitica I (Eisenbrauns, 1987) en Old Testament Abstracts 10 (3, 1987)
302-303.
Thomas Curry, The First
Freedoms: Church and State in America to the Passage of the First Amendment
(Oxford, 1986) in Harvard Review 1 (Fall, 1986)168-71/ Premier Issue.
OTRAS PUBLICACIONES O
POR INVITACIÓN:
Respuesta
a la
reseña del Dr. Eduardo Arens de ¿Se
puede saber si Dios existe?, Eupraxophia 2 (2000).
"Heavenly Conflicts:
The Bible and Astronomy," Mercury 27 (2, March/April, 1998) 20-24. The
Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
"¿Se
necesita de un dios para ser moral? El mito de la moralidad absoluta",
Revista Peruana de Filosofía Aplicada 3 (8, 1997) 15-26.
"The Study of the Afroasiatic
Languages in the Third Millennium--Results of a Conversation," Anduraru:
Bulletin of the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern and Afroasiatic Cultural
Research (September, 1997) 8-10.
"Can Science Prove that
Prayer Works?" Free Inquiry (Summer, 1997) 27-31.
"Los Testigos de Jehová,"
Razonamientos 3 (1995) 21-26. Translation of "The Jehovah's Witnesses..."
véase abajo.
"The Diversity of Diversity,"
Proceedings of the Second Annual Faculty Conference (Ames: Iowa State University,
1994) 17-20.
"Mary at Medjugorje:
A Critical Inquiry," Free Inquiry 14:2 (Spring, 1994) 48-54.
"The Jehovah's Witnesses
and the Watchtower Society," Free Inquiry 12 (2, 1992) 28-31.
"Kolumbuksen uskunnolliset
vaikutimet," Vartija (3, 1993) 100-107 ("Columbus' Religious Motives,"
tranducido al finlandés por Heikki Räisänen).