UID:
almahu_9949703200802882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047413813
,
9789004123670
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 90
Content:
This investigation focuses on divinely-sent dreams in early Judaism and discusses their literary forms and socio-religious functions. It examines Jewish dreams in the Bible, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Josephus, setting them in the wider context of antecedent and contemporary dream cultures. Part One grounds the project in the dream traditions of the ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, Greece, and Rome. Part Two investigates the unique emphases of early Jewish dreams, including: a priestly and scribal milieu, access to various planes of reality, new roles for dream messengers, and incubation rituals. Part Three explores implications for several related topics of study, including the rise of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism, and the social history of early Judaism.
Note:
Dreams in the ancient Near East and Israel -- Dreams in Greece and Rome -- Dreams in Hellenistic Judaism: form, vocabulary and functions -- Dreams in Hellenistic Judaism: creative transformations and elaborations -- Reflections and implications.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Dreamers, Scribes, and Priests : Jewish Dreams in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2004 ISBN 9789004123670
Language:
English
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