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Hardcover Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East Book
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ISBN: 094049020X

ISBN13: 9780940490208

Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East

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This monograph seeks to understand the cultural context and function of wordplay as employed by ancient Mesopotamian dream interpreters and other divinatory experts. The author then aims to use this context to explain the presence of punning in Akkadian literary and epistolary accounts of enigmatic dreams. Noegel also examines the later appearance of Egyptian oneirocritic punning and explores the possibility that it represents intellectual exchange...

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