Reading Dreams
In the introduction of this monograph that originated as a Ph.D. dissertation at Baylor University, the author captures the reader's curiosity, by stating: "The primary understanding of dreams in antiquity was that dreams represent some objective experience that connected humanity with the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2013, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 404-408 |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | In the introduction of this monograph that originated as a Ph.D. dissertation at Baylor University, the author captures the reader's curiosity, by stating: "The primary understanding of dreams in antiquity was that dreams represent some objective experience that connected humanity with the will of the divine. Ancients did not have dreams. They were encountered by dreams." According to Patricia Cox Miller, whom he cites, "Dreams were autonomous; they were not conceptualized as products of a personal sub- or unconscious but rather as visual images that present themselves to the dreamer" (1). Dodson thus concludes that ancient dreams had a socio-religious dimension which in turn influenced the literary representation of dreams in antiquity. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC148901 |