Perchance to Dream: Dream Divination in the Bible and the Ancient Near East (Ancient Near East Monographs) - Softcover

Esther J. Hamori; Jonathan Stökl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628372079 ISBN 13: 9781628372076

Publisher: SBL Press, 2018

Synopsis

Essays from an international group of experts

This book examines the interpretation of dreams, which were thought to contain divine messages in the ancient Near East. The essays, written by scholars specializing in different regions and bodies of literature, shed light on dream divination in the Bible, the Talmud, and in writings from Canaan, Mesopotamia, and Hittite Anatolia. Contributors include Franziska Ede, Esther J. Hamori, Koowon Kim, Christopher Metcalf, Alice Mouton, Scott B. Noegel, Andrew B. Perrin, Stephen C. Russell, Jonathan Stökl, and Haim Weiss.

Features:

• Perspectives from a variety of texts spanning the ancient eastern Mediterranean world
• Essays that serve as an entry point for interested scholars and graduate students
• A thorough study of dream divination understood as a discipline within ancient texts

About this title

About the Author:

Esther Hamori is an Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Hamori is the author of Women's Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge (2015).

Jonathan Stökl is lecturer Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at King's College London. He is the author of Prophecy in the Ancient Near East: A Philological and Sociological Comparison (2012).

About this edition

• Publisher: SBL Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1628372079
• ISBN 13: 9781628372076
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228