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Dream omen protases (2)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


 		Keywords
dreams
omens
Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Jewish philosophers and scholars
Neo-Assyrian texts

Text
Dream-Book (Assyrian):
In my dream I had intercourse with my mother who bore me, or my dead mother, or my sister.

Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot:
(If) in a dream he had intercourse with his mother … (If) in a dream he had intercourse with his sister …

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Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot
Dream-Book (Assyrian)

Bibliography

Geller 1999, 29Geller, M. J. “The Babylonian Background to Talmudic Science.” European Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter 6 (1999) 27-31. [PDF]

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Cf. Dream omen protases (1)
Cf. Dream omen protases (3)

Amar Annus


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