Elie Assis is the head of the Department of Bible Studies at Bar Ilan University. Among his scholarly work are his books "From Moses to Joshua and from the Miraculous to the Ordinary: A Literary Analysis of the Conquest Narrative in the Book of Joshua", Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2005 (Hebrew), and "Self-Interest or Communal Interest? An Ideology of Leadership in the Gideon, Abimelech and Jephthah Narratives (Judg. 6-12) "(Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 106), Brill Academic Press, Leiden, 2005. His book "Flashes of Fire" was published by T&T Clark in 2009.