The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East

The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East
Author: A. Leo Oppenheim
Publisher: Gorgias PressLlc
Total Pages: 373
Release: 1956
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781593337339

The fount from which all other Ancient Near Eastern dream studies flow, Oppenheim's seminal study of the topic is essential reading for anyone interested in how dreams were perceived before Freud.

The Dream and the Text

The Dream and the Text
Author: Carol Schreier Rupprecht
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780791413616

This book partakes of a long tradition of dream interpretation, but, at the same time, is unique in its cross-cultural and interdisciplinary methods and in its mix of theoretical and analytical approaches. It includes a great chronological and geographical range, from ancient Sumeria to eighteenth-century China; medieval Hispanic dream poetry to Italian Renaissance dream theory; Shakespeare to Nerval; and from Dostoevsky, through Emily Brontë, to Henry James. Rupprecht also incorporates various critical orientations including archetypal, comparative, feminist, historicist, linguistic, postmodern, psychoanalytic, religious, reader response, and self-psychology.

Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire

Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire
Author: Juliette Harrisson
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1441176330

An investigation into dream reports in the history and literature of early Roman culture.

Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond

Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond
Author: Agnes Garcia-Ventura
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2020-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1948488256

This book is an enthusiastic celebration of the ways in which popular culture has consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities. The editors have brought together an impressive line-up of scholars-archaeologists, philologists, historians, and art historians-to reflect on how objects, ideas, and interpretations of the ancient Near East have been remembered, constructed, reimagined, mythologized, or indeed forgotten within our shared cultural memories. The exploration of cultural memories has revealed how they inform the values, structures, and daily life of societies over time. This is therefore not a collection of essays about the deep past but rather about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.

The Dream and Human Societies

The Dream and Human Societies
Author: G. E. Von Grunebaum
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0520363825

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

The Ancient Near East

The Ancient Near East
Author: Dr. John L. McLaughlin
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426765509

The cultures of the great empires of the ancient Near East from Egypt to Mesopotamia influenced Israel's religion, literature, and laws because of Israel's geographic location and political position situation. Anyone who wishes to understand the Old Testament texts and the history of ancient Israel must become familiar with the history, literature, and society of the surrounding kingdoms that at times controlled the region. Brief in presentation yet broad in scope, Ancient Near East will introduce students to the information and ideas essential to understanding the texts of the Old Testament while clarifying difficult issues concerning the relationship between Israel and its neighbors. Abingdon Essential Guides fulfill the need for brief, substantive, yet highly accessible introductions to the core disciplines in biblical, theological, and religious studies.

A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation

A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation
Author: Maria V. Mavroudi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

This monograph compares the most important Byzantine work on dream interpretation with the 2nd-century A.D. Greek work of Artemidoros and five medieval Arabic dreambooks and demonstrates that it was based on Islamic Arabic sources adapted for Christian readers of Greek

Dictionary of the Ancient Near East

Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
Author: Piotr Bienkowski
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2010-03-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780812221152

An authoritative guide to the whole of the cradle of civilization.

Nocturnal Ciphers

Nocturnal Ciphers
Author: Scott B. Noegel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

Noegel's study deals with the very important phenomena of enigmatic dreams, their interpretation, word-play and punning within the cultural context of the Ancient Near East (i.e., Mesopotamia, Egypt, Canaan and Israel), Greece, and Rabbinic traditions. His basic idea is to demonstrate how dream interpretation was predicated by word-play and punning of dream interpreters.

Visions of the Night

Visions of the Night
Author: Kelly Bulkeley
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1999-09-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780791442838

This wide-ranging exploration of the spiritual and scientific dimensions of dreaming offers new connections between the ancient wisdom of the world's religious traditions, which have always taught that dreams reveal divine truths, and the recent findings of modern psychological research. Drawing upon philosophy, anthropology, sociology, neurology, literature, and film criticism, the book offers a better understanding of the mysterious complexity and startling creative powers of human dreaming experience. For those interested in gaining new perspectives on dreaming, the powers of the imagination, and the newest frontiers in the dialogue between religion and science, Visions of the Night promises to be a welcome resource.