Behind Closed Eyes : Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0954384504
ISBN-13
9780954384500
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales
Imprint
Classical Press of Wales
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 25th, 2003
Print length
237 Pages
Weight
658 grams
Ksh 7,600.00
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This book presents a comprehensive study of dreams as they were perceived and interpreted by the Egyptians in the third and second millennia BC, from the Old Kingdom to the New Kingdom.
Dreams and nightmares have long puzzled and fascinated, yet this is the first book to explore such visions in the Ancient Egyptian world. The author traces the evidence from the first half of Egypt''s long history, the Old Kingdom through the New Kingdom, a time-span of over 1,000 years. The book is arranged thematically, with chapters devoted to the literary use of dreams, to the political use of divine visions, to the technology used to ward away terrorizing nightmares. It also explores the Ramesside Dream Book, a unique text that reveals the desires and anxieties that could inspire an Egyptian''s dreams, with images of sex and power, of gods and the dead. All the relevant passages are conveniently translated in an appendix.
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