Dreams and Dream Narratives in the Biblical World

by Jean-Marie Husser

This study of dream accounts in the Bible and in ancient Near Eastern literature suggests two main lines of interpretation: on the one hand it defines the function of dream accounts from a literary, social, political and religious point of view on the basis of literary genre (practitioners' manuals, royal inscriptions, prophetic texts, etc.). On the other hand, in adopting a rather larger typology than is usual (message dreams, symbolic dreams,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850759685
• ISBN13: 9781850759683
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"