Raanan Eichler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1423208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raanan Eichler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raanan |
| FAMILY NAME | Eichler |
| SIGNATURE | EICHLER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2634-806X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
David’s Testament and the Shimei Duplicate
David’s Testament (1Kgs 2:1–9) appears as an episode in the larger Solomon Accession Narrative (1Kgs 1–2). This paper does three things. First, it shows that the Testament is a later interpolation into the Accession Narrative. Second, it shows that this conclusion provides a simple solution to the longstanding problem of the Shimei Duplicate, namely that David instructs Solomon regarding Shimei the Benjaminite in 2:8–9 in all textual witnesses an…
Identifying Pannag, an Ancient Product of Israel
The hapax legomenon פַּנַּג pannag is mentioned in Ezekiel as an export of the land of Israel to the international market in Tyre (Ezek 27:17). It has been interpreted in wildly different ways, with the dominant view now being that it is a kind of baked good or flour. A few scholars have noted Greek πάνακες »allheal« as an apparent cognate, but they have not realized its significance. It is argued here that Hebrew pannag and its Akkadian cognate …
Rhapsody in the Blue
There is currently no satisfactory etymology for the hapax legomenon רַפְסֹדוֹת rapsōdôt in 2Chr 2:15 (Eng. 16), although its meaning is agreed to be »rafts, floats«. It is proposed here that the word comes from the phonetically identical Greek word ῥαψῳδία (the ancestor of English rhapsody ), which literally means »linked song«. Logs linked together into rafts recalled verses linked together into songs
The Ark and the Cherubim
The most important objects in the Hebrew Bible are a wooden box, styled in English »the ark« or »the ark of the covenant«, and two statues of winged creatures, »the cherubim«, that surmount it. Raanan Eichler attempts to understand these objects using the full gamut of data and tools available to the modern scholar. The study features an abundance of visual comparative material, much of it in colour, with a particularly close examination of the f…
Dripping with Kindness
The common noun רְבִיבִים occurs six times in the Hebrew Bible (Deut 32:2; Jer 3:3; 14:22; Mic 5:6; Pss 65:10[10]; 72:6). Its contexts clearly suggest that it belongs to the semantic domain of rain and dew, and that it denotes something desirable. But further precision has eluded interpreters, and the much-discussed Ugaritic words rbb and rb are of little help in this regard. The apparent Akkadian cognate rabbu A, unmentioned in the standard Bibl…
Boring philology
The hapax legomenon זדה has been called the crux of the Shiloaḥ (Siloam) inscription. It is usually interpreted as ‘fissure, crack, void, cavity, etc’, but sixteen other interpretations have been proposed in the 140 years since the inscription’s discovery. This article argues on contextual and etymological grounds that the lexeme means ‘misalignment’
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Dripping with Kindness
The common noun רְבִיבִים occurs six times in the Hebrew Bible (Deut 32:2; Jer 3:3; 14:22; Mic 5:6; Pss 65:10[10]; 72:6). Its contexts clearly suggest that it belongs to the semantic domain of rain and dew, and that it denotes something desirable. But further precision has eluded interpreters, and the much-discussed Ugaritic words rbb and rb are of little help in this regard. The apparent Akkadian cognate rabbu A, unmentioned in the standard Bibl…
Boring philology
The hapax legomenon זדה has been called the crux of the Shiloaḥ (Siloam) inscription. It is usually interpreted as ‘fissure, crack, void, cavity, etc’, but sixteen other interpretations have been proposed in the 140 years since the inscription’s discovery. This article argues on contextual and etymological grounds that the lexeme means ‘misalignment’
The Ark and the Cherubim
The most important objects in the Hebrew Bible are a wooden box, styled in English »the ark« or »the ark of the covenant«, and two statues of winged creatures, »the cherubim«, that surmount it. Raanan Eichler attempts to understand these objects using the full gamut of data and tools available to the modern scholar. The study features an abundance of visual comparative material, much of it in colour, with a particularly close examination of the f…
Rhapsody in the Blue
There is currently no satisfactory etymology for the hapax legomenon רַפְסֹדוֹת rapsōdôt in 2Chr 2:15 (Eng. 16), although its meaning is agreed to be »rafts, floats«. It is proposed here that the word comes from the phonetically identical Greek word ῥαψῳδία (the ancestor of English rhapsody ), which literally means »linked song«. Logs linked together into rafts recalled verses linked together into songs
Identifying Pannag, an Ancient Product of Israel
The hapax legomenon פַּנַּג pannag is mentioned in Ezekiel as an export of the land of Israel to the international market in Tyre (Ezek 27:17). It has been interpreted in wildly different ways, with the dominant view now being that it is a kind of baked good or flour. A few scholars have noted Greek πάνακες »allheal« as an apparent cognate, but they have not realized its significance. It is argued here that Hebrew pannag and its Akkadian cognate …
David’s Testament and the Shimei Duplicate
David’s Testament (1Kgs 2:1–9) appears as an episode in the larger Solomon Accession Narrative (1Kgs 1–2). This paper does three things. First, it shows that the Testament is a later interpolation into the Accession Narrative. Second, it shows that this conclusion provides a simple solution to the longstanding problem of the Shimei Duplicate, namely that David instructs Solomon regarding Shimei the Benjaminite in 2:8–9 in all textual witnesses an…
Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Biblical Hebrew (2 works) · Biblical studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Hebrew (2 works)