I Lifted My Eyes and Saw' - Reading Dream and Vision Reports in the Hebrew Bible

This volume addresses the function and impact of vision and dream accounts in the Hebrew Bible. The contributors explore the exegetical, rhetorical, and structural aspects of the vision and dream accounts in the Hebrew Bible, focusing on prophetic vision reports. Several contributors employ a diachronic approach as they explore the textual relationship between the vision reports and the oracular material. Others focus on the rhetorical aspects of the vision reports in their final form and discuss why vision reporting may be used to convey a message. Another approach employed looks at reception history and investigates how this type of text has been understood by past exegetes. A few chapters consider the inter-textual relationship of the various vision reports in the Hebrew Bible, focusing on shared themes and motifs. There are also papers that deal with the ways in which select texts in the Hebrew Bible portray dream/vision interpreters andtheir activities.>

About the author

Dr Elizabeth R. Hayes is Affiliate Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. She has written on Jeremiah and Ezekiel, with special interest in reception history and in cognitive linguistics as a hermeneutical strategy.Dr Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer is Professor in Old Testament Exegesis, Örebro School of Theology, Sweden.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth R Hayes, Elizabeth R. (Fuller Theological Seminary Hayes, Elizabeth R. Tiemeyer Hayes, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
• Assisted by: Elizabeth R. Hayes (Editor), Elizabeth R. (Fuller Theological Seminary Hayes (Editor), Andrew Mein (Editor), Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (Editor), Lena-Sofia (University of Aberdeen Tiemeyer (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780567666772
• ISBN: 978-0-567-66677-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; Criminal Practice Series; The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity