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Publisher:
Collaborators:
  • Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University
Year:
2013
Catalog number :
45-131126
ISBN:
978-965-493-705-4
Pages:
480
Language:
Weight:
1150 gr.
Cover:
Hardcover

Fleeting Dreams and Possessive Dybbuks

On Dreams and Possession in Jewish and Other Cultures

Synopsis

This book is dedicated to a comprehensive study of two subjects: crossing the boundaries between earth and heaven, between the visible and invisible realm.

 The first subject - dreams and their meanings in the literature of the classical world. The second subject - ghosts, daemons and haunting possessions in the culture of the Jewish culture and other religions. 

In twenty one articles the authors spread for the reader a diverse and Multidisciplinary image which shows how human beings have been attempting to peer behind the curtain and to give a lingual-literal expression to the experience of meeting unreachable worlds.