Biography

Frances Flannery-Dailey



Frances Flannery-Dailey, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Religion, Hendrix College. She teaches Biblical Studies and Religion and Culture courses, including a course on Religion and Film and a closely related course on Religion and Monsters.

She is author of Dreamers, Scribes and Priests: Jewish Dreams in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras (Brill: 2004), as well as numerous articles in Second Temple Judaism and Religion and Film.

A member of the Society of Biblical Literature, she is chair of the Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Consulation (2005-2008) and sits on the Steering Committee of the American Academy of Religion's Religion, Film and Visual Culture Program Unit.

Current research interests include apocalypticism, cosmologies, religious experience in antiquity, and monsters in ancient and contemporary religions.


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