Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near EastAmerican Oriental Society, 2007 - 346 من الصفحات 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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... ritual . 154 He differentiates three types of rituals : rituals of maintenance ( calendrically fixed rituals ) ; rituals of transformation ( those rituals that affect a change in the status and identity of individuals , like rites of ...
... ritual . 154 He differentiates three types of rituals : rituals of maintenance ( calendrically fixed rituals ) ; rituals of transformation ( those rituals that affect a change in the status and identity of individuals , like rites of ...
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... ritual of transformation . The act of writing it down served to preserve the memory of the ritual act and its curative power . 167 Punning was one of the devices used to register and affect this process . Thomassen's remark on ...
... ritual of transformation . The act of writing it down served to preserve the memory of the ritual act and its curative power . 167 Punning was one of the devices used to register and affect this process . Thomassen's remark on ...
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... ritual praxis accompanying oneiromancy in ancient Greece . Penelope does not seek medical treatment for having the dream , because such dream rituals apparently did not exist , or were not necessary for the therapeutic process to be ...
... ritual praxis accompanying oneiromancy in ancient Greece . Penelope does not seek medical treatment for having the dream , because such dream rituals apparently did not exist , or were not necessary for the therapeutic process to be ...
المحتوى
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ENIGMATIC DREAMS IN MESOPOTAMIAN LITERATURE | 57 |
ENIGMATIC DREAMS IN EGYPT | 89 |
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