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 finds from the
tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The author proposes solutions to a
number of unsolved puzzles, such as the question of what cherubim
looked like, and offers a new explanation of the nature of the ark
and the cherubim, rejecting the prevailing scholarly view of them
as having constituted an "empty throne" and footstool for the God
of Israel. Rather, he argues, they constituted an empty frame, a
unique cultic focus that surpassed all known systems in the ancient
Near East in the extent of the efforts it represented to prevent an
anthropomorphic conception of the deity in a cultic context.
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