Artemidorus Interprets the Dream of Mordecai (Additions to Esther A and F)
The Alpha Text (AT) and Old Greek (OG) versions of Esther include six chapter-length passages—the “Additions”—not paralleled in the Hebrew Masoretic Text (MT) of Esther. In Addition A, Mordecai sees a dream marked by battle cries, confusion, thunder, earthquake, chaos, a pair of dragons, preparation...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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| In: |
Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2023, Volume: 73, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 766-792 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mordechai Biblical character
/ Dream
/ Esther
/ Old Testament
/ Old Testament
/ Old Testament
/ Artemidorus, Daldianus, Onirocriticon
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
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| Summary: | The Alpha Text (AT) and Old Greek (OG) versions of Esther include six chapter-length passages—the “Additions”—not paralleled in the Hebrew Masoretic Text (MT) of Esther. In Addition A, Mordecai sees a dream marked by battle cries, confusion, thunder, earthquake, chaos, a pair of dragons, preparations for war, darkness and gloom, affliction and anguish, and an outcry to God from a frightened nation of righteous people. A small spring emerges from the outcry and turns into a mighty river, which consumes those held in esteem. Addition F offers a limited interpretation of several elements of this dream but leaves much of the dream uninterpreted. This paper offers a fresh perspective on the Addition A dream and its relationship to the plot of both AT- and OG-Esther in light of Artemidorus’s Oneirocritica, a second-century CE handbook of dream interpretation. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-bja10112 |