Dreamers, Scribes, And Priests
Subtitle: Jewish Dreams In The Hellenistic And Roman Eras (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9789004123670
Subjects: Religion; Judaism - General; History; Self-Help; To 1500; Religious aspects; Psychology; Dreams - General; Interior Design - General; Dream interpretation; Dreams; Judaism
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.