Elie Assis, Ph.D. in Biblical studies, is a lecturer of Bible at Bar Ilan University. He has published on literary and theological aspects of biblical narrative including a study on the the Book of Judges: Self-Interest or Communal Interest: An Ideology of Leadership in the Gideon, Abimelech and Jephthah Narratives (Judg 6-12), Brill, 2002).