
Revisions of the Night
Politics and Promises in the Patriarchal Dreams of Genesis
Diana Lipton(Author)
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Published on 1. November 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-4411-2055-7 (ISBN)
Description
An intriguing and subtle study of five Genesis dreams: Abimelech's (20.1-18), Jacob's (28.10-22; 31.10-13), Laban's (31.24) and Abraham's (15.1-21). Like many of their ancient Near Eastern counterparts, all occur at times of uncertainty, concern status, and emphasize divine involvement in human affairs. At a deeper level, they also address doubts arising from God's promise of land, descendants and a unique role for Israel among the nations. Their particular treatment of relations between Israelites and non-Israelites and of Israel's absence from the land points to the Babylonian Exile as the background against which the patriarchal dream texts achieved their present form. Revisions of the Night shows how dreams combine the highly personal with the ardently political in an inspired response to national crisis.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
389 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-2055-7 (9781441120557)
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Diana Lipton is a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.