Dr. Raanan Eichler is Senior Lecturer of Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed fellowships at Harvard University and Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Ark and the Cherubim (Mohr Siebeck, 2021) and numerous scholarly articles. His academic interests include Israelite beliefs and ideologies, ancient Near Eastern iconography and the Hebrew Bible, textual criticism, and reception history. Raanan was on post-doctoral year with the DNI Bible project over 2016-2017.