עברית

Prof. Raanan Eichler

Email
raanan.eichler@biu.ac.il
Reception Hours
בתיאום מראש
Research Categories
CV
  • 2023-present: Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University
  • 2017-2023: Senior Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University
  • 2016/7: Postdoctoral fellowship at Tel Aviv University
  • 2015/6: Postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University
  • 2008-2016: PhD in Bible from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 2004-2008: MA in Bible (magna cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 2001-2004: BA in Bible and Psychology (magna cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research
  • Beliefs and cult in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel
  • Realia and iconography of the ancient Near East
  • Lexicography of Biblical Hebrew and Iron Age Inscriptional Hebrew
  • Textual Criticism
  • Book of Kings
  • Deliberate Ambiguity and Humor in the Hebrew Bible
Courses
  • Introduction to the Bible
  • Textual Criticism of the Bible
  • Pictures and Objects from the Time of the Bible
  • External Sources for the Biblical Period
  • Bibliographical Guidance for Biblical Studies
  • The Book of Kings
  • The Five Scrolls
  • The Tabernacle, the Temple, and Their Furniture
  • The Ark of the Covenant
  • The Bible and Liberal-Democratic Thought
Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. *Raanan Eichler, “Rhapsody in the Blue: Another Greek Loanword in Biblical Hebrew”, forthcoming in Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 136/3 (2024).
  2. Raanan Eichler, “China Is in the Bible”, Vetus Testamentum 74/1 (2024): 60–77.
  3. Raanan Eichler, “A Phantom Verb: yuttan in Biblical Hebrew”, Journal of Semitic Studies 68/2 (2023): 377–390.
  4. Raanan Eichler, “The Gezer Calendar, Rahab, and Agricultural Reality in Ancient Israel”, Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 36 (2023): 48–61.
  5. Raanan Eichler, “A Conjectural Emendation in Psalm 68,19”, Biblica 103/1 (2022): 131–136.
  6. Raanan Eichler, “An Ambiguous Oracle in the Prophecy against Elam (Jeremiah 49:34–39)”, Vetus Testamentum 72/2 (2022): 183–190.
  7. Raanan Eichler, “Solomon’s Throne in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context”, Vetus Testamentum 71/4–5 (2021): 551–565.
  8. Raanan Eichler, “A Sin Is Borne: Clearing Up the Law of Women’s Vows (Numbers 30)”, Vetus Testamentum 71/3 (2021): 317–328.
  9. Raanan Eichler, “Solomon’s Judgment: The Meta-Riddle”, Biblica 102/1 (2021): 30–44.
  10. Raanan Eichler, “The Tree-Hugger Who Went on a Date: The Meaning of sansan”, Vetus Testamentum 70/4 (2020): 581–591.
  11. Raanan Eichler, “Dripping with Kindness: The Meaning of rebîbîm”, Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 132/3 (2020): 449–457.
  12. Raanan Eichler, “Boring Philology: The Meaning of zdh in the Siloam Inscription”, Palestine Exploration Quarterly 152/1 (2020): 44–52.
  13. Raanan Eichler, “The Oracle of Rebekah: An Ambiguous Etiology”, Biblica 100/4 (2019): 584–593.
  14.  Raanan Eichler, “Jehu, Horses, Camels, and Job: The Meaning of šip‘at”, Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 131/2 (2019): 279–286.
  15. Raanan Eichler, “The Priestly Asherah”, Vetus Testamentum 69/1 (2019): 33–45.
  16. Raanan Eichler, “Jeremiah and the Assyrian Sacred Tree”, Vetus Testamentum 67/3 (2017): 403–413.
  17. Raanan Eichler, “The Poles of the Ark: On the Ins and Outs of a Textual Contradiction”, Journal of Biblical Literature 135/4 (2016): 733–741.
  18.  Raanan Eichler, “Cherub: A History of Interpretation”, Biblica 96/1 (2015): 26–38.
  19. Raanan Eichler, “The Meaning of pa‘am in the Context of Furniture”, Journal of Semitic Studies 60/1 (2015): 1–18.
  20. Raanan Eichler, “When God Abandoned the Garden of Eden: A Forgotten Reading of Genesis 3:24”, Vetus Testamentum 65/1 (2015): 20–32.
  21. Raanan Eichler, “The Meaning of ישב הכרבים”, Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 126/3 (2014): 358–371.
  22. Raanan Eichler, “The Meaning of zer”, Vetus Testamentum 64/2 (2014): 196–210.
  23. Raanan Eichler, “The Function of the Ark Cherubim”, Tarbiz 79/2 (2011): 165–185 (Hebrew).

Other Articles

  • Raanan Eichler, “3s Verbs with Indefinite Subjects in the Tabernacle Pericopes of Exodus”, in Joel S. Baden and Jeffrey Stackert (eds.), The Pentateuch and Its Readers: Essays in Honor of Baruch J. Schwartz (FAT 170; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023), 191–205.
  • Raanan Eichler, “Corresponding to Him: The Message of Gender Equality in the Eden Narrative”, Judaism, Sovereignty and Human Rights 2 (2016): 17–32 (Hebrew).

Books

  • Raanan Eichler, The Ark and the Cherubim (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 146; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021), XV + 391 pages.
  • *Raanan Eichler, ארון הברית והכרובים (revised Hebrew edition of previous item); contract signed in 2019 for publication in the Bialik Institute’s Biblical Encyclopaedia Library; expected to be published in 2024.

Edited Book

  • Leon R. Kass, ראשית חכמה, edited by Raanan Eichler, Shalem Press 2010 (Hebrew edition of Leon R. Kass, The Beginning of Wisdom, Free Press 2003).

Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries

  • Raanan Eichler and Thomas Staubli, “Ark of the Covenant”, in Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations, 2023.
  • Raanan Eichler, “Ark of the Covenant”, in Oxford Bibliographies, 2017.
  • Raanan Eichler, “Cherubim”, in Oxford Bibliographies, 2018.
  • Raanan Eichler, “Cherub”, in Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Ancient Near East, 2016.
  • Raanan Eichler et al., “Acacia”, “Almond”, “Apple”, “Barley”, “Castorbean”, “Date palm”, “Emmer”, “Fig”, “Grain”, “Millet”, “Pine”, “Quail”, “Summer”, “Wheat”, and “Winter”, in DNI – Dictionary of Nature Imagery of the Bible.
  • *Raanan Eichler, “Poplar”, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception; accepted for publication, expected in 2025.
  • *Raanan Eichler, “Seven Species | Hebrew Bible”, ibid.; expected in 2027.

Last Updated Date : 02/08/2024