The Dynamics of Dream-Vision Revelation in the Aramaic Dead Sea

The Dynamics of Dream-Vision Revelation in the Aramaic Dead Sea

Andrew B. Perrin
The Dynamics of Dream-Vision
Revelation in the Aramaic Dead Sea
Scrolls
Strategic use of dream-visions in Second
Temple period writings
This study maps out the compositional
patterns and exegetical, priestly, and
historiographical applications of dreamvisions in a constellation of twenty-nine
Second Temple period writings among the
Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.
Andrew B. Perrin contributes to the ongoing
debate over whether the Aramaic texts
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among the Dead Sea Scrolls are a cohesive
corpus or accidental anthology. Paramount
among the literary topoi that hint at an
inherent unity is the pervasive usage of the
dream-vision in a constellation of at least
twenty writings.
The author demonstrates that the literary
convention of the dream-vision was
employed for scriptural exegesis, to endorse
particular understandings of the origins and
functions of the priesthood, and as an ex
eventu historiographical mechanism for
revealing aspects or all of world history.
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Andrew B. Perrin is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Co-Director of the
Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia,
Canada
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