Papers by Geoffrey Dennis
Encyclopedia of the Bible Online
Encyclopedia of the Bible Online, Jun 26, 2024
Ebr vol. 9, 2014
Interpretations of the biblical garden in Medieval Judaism
EBR vol. 21, 2023
Interpretation of biblical numbers in Medieval and Modern Judaism
EBR vol. 21, 2023
Medieval and modern interpretations of the biblical account of the deaths of Nadab and Avihu in t... more Medieval and modern interpretations of the biblical account of the deaths of Nadab and Avihu in the book of Leviticus
EBR vol. 20, 2022
Myths of Medieval Judaism
EBR vol. 18 , 2018
Interpretation of the left side and left hand in Judaism
EBR vol. 12, 2016
Entry on the Yetzer ha-ra and ha-tov in Medieval Jewish thought
EBR, vol. 12, 2016
Medieval Judaism
EBR, 2016
Judaism sub-entry
Spirituality, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism, Feb 8, 2016
Love is as strong as death: Meeting the pastoral needs of the Jewish hospice patient
Choice Reviews Online, 2008
... It survives only in Greek. Abraxis: An angel mentioned in the Gnostic tradition that appears ... more ... It survives only in Greek. Abraxis: An angel mentioned in the Gnostic tradition that appears in later Jewish amulets and in Medieval Jew-ish angelologies. ... 1. Scholem, Major Trends inJewish Mysticism, 12046; Kaplan, Meditation and Kabbalah, 5771. ...
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2014
Recent scholarship has identified multiple levels of interplay between American Jews and sequenti... more Recent scholarship has identified multiple levels of interplay between American Jews and sequential art stories (comics). Many comics are now widely understood to be artifacts of the evolving Jewish American experience; this interplay is understood to have grown out of the cultural history, sociology, and social-psychology of the Jews who created, produced, and consumed these comics. But relatively little research has been done on the appropriation and incorporation of Jewish Tradition (Heb. Mesorah) in comics and how this incorporation mirrors the changing relationship of Jewish culture to American (predominantly Protestant) culture. Using textual and visual criticism, supplemented by the selective application of Jewish studies, mythological studies, sociology, and feminist theory, the authors offer insight into an aspect of that appropriation by tracking a single figure from Jewish folklore that comic writers and artists have drawn on, again and again: Lilith, first wife of Adam, hypersexual transgressor, demon mother, infanticide, and evil personified. Lilith’s trajectory and revision through pulp visual narratives over the past forty years sees her evolve from the traditional demon harridan into a feminist antihero, a mother seeking redemption from her daughter, and, eventually, an American superhero teammate. Her literary-visual transformations offer a pop culture perspective on Jewish Tradition’s evolution from a despised to an accepted element in American culture. Moreover, the continuous hybridization of Lilith’s story with Christian motifs, classical mythology, contemporary issues, and American history is a marker of a larger rapid and distinctively American assimilation of Jewish Tradition into the American intellectual and imaginative canon.
Anthropology of Consciousness, 2008
This article combines the disciplines of textual/linguistic analysis, anthropology, and perceptua... more This article combines the disciplines of textual/linguistic analysis, anthropology, and perceptual psychology to examine selected ancient Jewish mystical texts that claim to describe the praxis for ascents into heaven and encounters with angelic spirits in order to reconstruct the psychosocial context of these literary works. Specifically, the article examines Hekhalot or “Divine Palaces” texts that deal with hydromancy, giving attention to their mythic–symbolic assumptions, their described preparatory and triggering rituals, and their accounts of the ASC (altered states of consciousness) visions resulting from these rituals that are experienced by the practitioners. The article suggests that these accounts correlate with ASC practices identified in the literature and additionally suggests that although the mystical texts are written to resemble biblical accounts of revelatory experiences, the texts under consideration are more than works of fabulous imagination; they are literary a...
... It survives only in Greek. Abraxis: An angel mentioned in the Gnostic tradition that appears ... more ... It survives only in Greek. Abraxis: An angel mentioned in the Gnostic tradition that appears in later Jewish amulets and in Medieval Jew-ish angelologies. ... 1. Scholem, Major Trends inJewish Mysticism, 12046; Kaplan, Meditation and Kabbalah, 5771. ...
Survey of the role of the Shekhinah (divine presence) in Jewish traditions of possession and exor... more Survey of the role of the Shekhinah (divine presence) in Jewish traditions of possession and exorcism
Summary entry on Jewish interpretation of the "the good" as found in rabbinic literature, the rat... more Summary entry on Jewish interpretation of the "the good" as found in rabbinic literature, the rationalist philosophers, and mystics.
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