Geoffrey W. Dennis (Flower Mound, TX) is a rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami and a lecturer in Kabbalah and rabbinic literature at the University of North Texas. His articles have appeared in Sh'ma, Parabola, Healing Ministries, The Journal of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care.
An erudite and lively compendium of Jewish magical beliefs, practices, texts, and individuals...This superb, comprehensive encyclopedia belongs in every serious library. --Richard M. Golden, Director of the Jewish Studies Program, University of North Texas, and editor of The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition Rabbi Dennis has performed a tremendously important service for both the scholar and the novice in composing a work of concise information about aspects of Judaism unbeknownst to most, and intriguing to all. --Rabbi Gershon Winkler, author of Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism