Dreams and dream narratives in the biblical world
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 (pr…
"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 (…
"Diese Studie untersucht jenes Wissen, auf das bei der Interpretation des Traumprozesses sowie bei der Deutung, Einordnung und Niederschrift von Träumen zurückgegriffen wurde. Sie beschäftigt sich darüber hinaus mit der Stellung des Wissens über den Traum in der Wissenschaft im …
Review text: "Die abendländische Wissenschaftsgeschichte des Traumes vom 16. bis Mitte 18. Jh., ein Desiderat der Frühneuzeitforschung, wird durch vorl. Monographie ... chronologisch und thematisch erschlossen. ... Ihr Gegenstand sind Traumberichte (echte und fingierte, nicht li…
Diese Studie untersucht jenes Wissen, auf das bei der Interpretation des Traumprozesses sowie bei der Deutung, Einordnung und Niederschrift von Träumen zurückgegriffen wurde. Sie beschäftigt sich darüber hinaus mit der Stellung des Wissens über den Traum in der Wissenschaft im a…
Human experience is not confined to waking life. Do experiences in dreams matter? Humans are not the only living beings who have experiences. Does nonhuman experience matter? The Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu, writing during the late fourth and early fifth centuries C.E., argu…
"Human experience is not confined to waking life. Do experiences in dreams matter? Humans are not the only living beings who have experiences. Does nonhuman experience matter? The Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu, writing during the late fourth and early fifth centuries C.E., arg…
"Human experience is not confined to waking life. Do experiences in dreams matter? Humans are not the only living beings who have experiences. Does nonhuman experience matter? The Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu, writing during the late fourth and early fifth centuries C.E., arg…
"While modern students of Greek religion are alert to the occasion-boundedness of epiphanies and divinatory dreams in Greek polytheism, they are curiously indifferent to the generic parameters of the relevant textual representations on which they build their argument. Instead, g…
Dreams that Matter explores the social and material life of dreams in contemporary Cairo. Amira Mittermaier guides the reader through landscapes of the imagination that feature Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss all forms of divination as superst…
