Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near EastAmerican Oriental Society, 2007 - 346 sivua This monograph seeks to understand the cultural context and function of wordplay as employed by ancient Mesopotamian dream interpreters and other divinatory experts. The author then aims to use this context to explain the presence of punning in Akkadian literary and epistolary accounts of enigmatic dreams. Noegel also examines the later appearance of Egyptian oneirocritic punning and explores the possibility that it represents intellectual exchange between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Building upon these observations, he then argues that Israelite, and possibly Ugaritic, literary reports of enigmatic dreams similarly reflect the punning hermeneutic and therefore also may share a mantic context, as well as possible Mesopotamian influence. Finally, Noegel traces punning oneirocritic strategy into other cultures and later times and texts, including early Greek and Talmudic literature. Noegel's investigation provides insights into a variety of subjects including the social context of divination and the production of literary texts, the role of writing and script in the divinatory process, the impact of Mesopotamian intellectual thought, the authorship of certain biblical pericopes, the relationship of oneiromancy to prophecy, and the function of ancient Near Eastern literary devices. In so doing, he draws attention to broader theoretical concerns that confront the study of the ancient world. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ENIGMATIC DREAMS IN MESOPOTAMIAN LITERATURE | 57 |
ENIGMATIC DREAMS IN EGYPT | 89 |
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Akkadian allusion Alten Ancient Israel Ancient Magic Ancient Near East Ancient Near Eastern appears Aramaic Artemidorus Assyrian Atra-hasis Berakhot Book of Daniel Commentary Conceptions of Dreams context cultural cuneiform Daldianus Daniel divinatory divine dream interpretation Dream Rituals Dreams and Dream Dreams Oneirocritica E. J. Brill Egypt Egyptian Eisenbrauns enigmatic dreams Enkidu Epic of Gilgamesh example exegetical extispicy Genesis gods Greek hermeneutic Homeric Husser illocutionary power incantation Interpretation of Dreams Israelite Janus Parallelism Jeremiah Jewish Joseph king Late Antique literary Literature Magic and Ritual mantic Mari means Mesopotamian Mesopotamian Conceptions Moreover NABU Noegel Note Odyssey Old Babylonian omen series oneirocritic Oneirocritica oneiromancy oneiromantic Oppenheim Oracles paronomasia Penelope's dream performative power Pharaoh play prophecy prophetic punning rabbinic reference Religion remarks Ritual Power scholars scribal scribes secret similarly Studies suggests Sumerian Šumma Tablet Talmud Testament texts Torah traditions Traum Ugaritic University Press Utnapishtim verb vision Winona Lake wisdom word wordplay writing