Perchance to dream : dream divination in the Bible and the Ancient Near East

• Autores: Hamori, Esther J.; Metcalf, Christopher; Mouton, Alice; Kim, Koowon; Noegel, Scott B.; Ede, Franziska; Russell, Stephen C.; Stökl, Jonathan; Perrin, Andrew B.; Weiss, Haim
• Año de publicación: 2018
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: libro
• Fuente: Hamori, E.J., Stökl, J. (eds.). Perchance to dream : dream divination in the Bible and the Ancient Near East. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature; Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente, 2018; Ancient Near East Monographs - Monografías sobre el Antiguo Cercano Oriente. 2021, 18
• Materia: BIBLIA; ORIENTE ANTIGUO; CERCANO ORIENTE; ADIVINACION; DIOSES
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina

Fil: Ede, Franziska. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Alemania
Fil: Hamori, Esther J. Union Theological Seminary; Estados Unidos
Fil: Metcalf, Christopher. University of Oxford. The Queen’s College; Reino Unido
Fil: Mouton, Alice. Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Institut Catholique de Paris; Francia
Fil: Kim, Koowon. Reformed Theological Seminary; China
Fil: Noegel, Scott B. University of Washington; Estados Unidos
Fil: Russell, Stephen C. City University of New York. John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Estados Unidos
Fil: Stökl, Jonathan. King’s College London; Reino Unido
Fil: Perrin, Andrew B. Trinity Western University, Estados Unidos
Fil: Weiss, Haim. Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Israel
Throughout the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, as in so many other places and times, communication from beyond seemed at once ubiquitous and perplexing. Deities communicated with human beings in a variety of ways, from directing the movements of the stars and encoding divine messages on the livers of sacrificial animals to directly addressing selected individuals or sending lesser divine beings to speak for them. While expressions of this differed from one context to another, and the predominant modes of divination, methods of interpretation, and literary reflections were far from uniform, the underlying assumption that the gods spoke to people both directly and indirectly, and both explicitly and obliquely, is reflected in the literature of the regions represented in this volume (and beyond). Among the many forms of divine-human communication seen in these corpora, dreaming occupied the peculiar sphere of being in some ways and at some times a quite direct mode of communication, akin to prophecy, and in other ways and at other times rather opaque, more like the symbolic “writing” of the gods on the liver...