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A Dream Which Is Not Interpreted Is like a Letter Which Is Not Read by Maren Ruth Niehoff is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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This rabbinic saying in bBer 55al postulates, more explicitly than any Tother, the notion of a significant resemblance between a dream and a text. It moreover indicates that if a dream is comparable to a text, then its interpretation can be said to correspond to the act of reading. The analogy to a letter further suggests that the dream might be regarded as a text with a specific intent, a particular addressee, and perhaps even a known author.2 Conversely, if a letter is similar to a dream, the reading of it will in some way be congruous with oneirocritical interpretation. It is this link between exegesis and dream interpretation which will be the topic of the present investigation. In modern scholarship, S. Lieberman first suggested an analogy between, and indeed a common origin of, some rabbinic exegetical methods and ancient oneirocritical rules.3 Shortly after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, scholars began to notice conceptual and formal similarities between biblical dream interpretation and the type of exegesis found in the Pesher Habakkuk (PHab).4 On the basis of these findings, it has subsequently been discussed whether such similarities could also be recognized betwe
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- Author
- Maren Ruth Niehoff
- Publisher
- Journal of Jewish Studies
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)