Dr. Frances Flannery
Office: Cleveland 215
Fax: (540) 568-8072
Education:
B.S. College of William and Mary
M.A. University of Iowa
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Research:
Professor Flannery teaches and researches in the areas of the Hebrew Bible and Judaism. Her main area of research is Second Temple Judaism, particularly focusing on issues related to apocalypticism, early Jewish mysticism, and religious experience. Her publications include Dreamers, Scribes and Priests: Jewish Dreams in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras (Leiden: Brill, 2004), and Experientia, Volume One: Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Early Christianity (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008). She is founding editor of the online, academic, peer-reviewed journal GOLEM: Journal of Religion and Monsters (www.golemjournal.org) and also sits on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed Journal of Religion and Film.
Teaching:
Dr. Flannery teaches the following courses: World Religions (GREL); Introduction to the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament; Judaism; Religion and Film; Apocalypticism, Terrorism and Peace; and Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity.
Selected Publications:
Dreamers, Scribes, and Priests: Jewish Dreams in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras. Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplementary Monographs 90. Ed. John J. Collins; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004.
Co-Editor with Rodney Werline. Experientia: Studies in Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity (2 Volumes). SBL Press, in progress.
"Lessons on Early Jewish Apocalypticism and Mysticism from Dream Literature," in Paradise Now.