Moshe Garsiel is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University. He has also served as a visiting professor in other universities in Israel, the USA, and the UK. Among his many publications are the books: The Kingdom of David: Studies in History and Inquiries in Historiography (1975); The First Book of Samuel: A Literary Study of Comparative Structures, Analogies and Parallels (1985); Biblical Names: A Literary Study of Midrashic Derivations and Puns (1991); and From Earth to Heaven: A Literary Study of Elijah Stories in the Book of Kings (2014).