The Elyonim veTachtonim project (Heb. “those above and those below”, a merism for the totality of divine creation) offers two databases of supernatural entities in the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmud.
It is a customizable system of the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the textual accounts featuring supernatural entities understood according to the cognitive science of religion with an emphasis on the cognitive metaphors used in the description of their appearance and behavior, especially vis-à-vis human actors. The central tool of this analysis is the database, which functions primarily as a convenient thematic concordance and a repository of systematically annotated data. Initiated in 2016 to construe the comprehensive inventory of angels, demons, ghosts, and monsters in the Babylonian Talmud, it was gradually expanded to cover other literary corpora, inter alia the Hebrew Bible.
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The Elyonim veTachtonim project (Heb. “those above and those below”, a merism for the totality of divine creation) offers two databases of supernatural entities in the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmud.
It is a customizable system of the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the textual accounts featuring supernatural entities understood according to the cognitive science of religion with an emphasis on the cognitive metaphors used in the description of their appearance and behavior, especially vis-à-vis human actors. The central tool of this analysis is the database, which functions primarily as a convenient thematic concordance and a repository of systematically annotated data. Initiated in 2016 to construe the comprehensive inventory of angels, demons, ghosts, and monsters in the Babylonian Talmud, it was gradually expanded to cover other literary corpora, inter alia the Hebrew Bible.