Beschreibung:
Frances Flannery-Dailey, Ph.D. (2000) in Religion, The University of Iowa, is Assistant Professor of Religion at Hendrix College. This is her first monograph.
This study of divinely-sent dreams in Hellenistic Judaism, set in the context of antecedent and contemporary dream traditions, explores several unique developments in Jewish dreams, with implications for the rise of apocalypticism, mysticism and the social history of early Judaism.
CONTENTS Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE Chapter One. Dreams in the Ancient Near East and Israel Chapter Two. Dreams in Greece and Rome PART TWO Chapter Three. Dreams in Hellenistic Judaism: Form, Vocabulary, and Functions Chapter Four. Dreams in Hellenistic Judaism: Creative Transformations and Elaborations PART THREE Chapter Five. Reflections and Implications Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Authors Index of Primary Texts