Reading Dreams: An Audience-Critical Approach to the Dreams in the Gospel of Matthew
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Reading Dreams: An Audience-Critical Approach to the Dreams in the Gospel of Matthew  -     By: Derek S. Dodson

Reading Dreams: An Audience-Critical Approach to the Dreams in the Gospel of Matthew

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Title: Reading Dreams: An Audience-Critical Approach to the Dreams in the Gospel of Matthew
By: Derek S. Dodson
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 214
Vendor: T&T Clark
Publication Date: 2009
Dimensions: 9.2 X 6.2 X 0.9 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 2 ounces
ISBN: 0567577708
ISBN-13: 9780567577702
Series: Library of New Testament Studies
Stock No: WW577702

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Dodson reads the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew (1:18b-25; 2:12, 13-15, 19-21, 22; 27:19) as the authorial audience. This approach requires an understanding of the social and literary character of dreams in the Greco-Roman world. Dodson describes the social function of dreams, noting that dreams constituted one form of divination in the ancient world, and looks at the theories and classification of dreams that developed in the ancient world.
He then moves on to demonstrate the literary dimensions of dreams in Greco-Roman literature. This exploration of the literary representation of dreams is nuanced by considering the literary form of dreams, dreams in the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition, the inventiveness of literary dreams, and the literary function of dreams. The dreams in the Gospel of Matthew are then analyzed in this social and literary context.
It is demonstrated that Matthew's use of dreams as a literary convention corresponds to the script of dreams in other Greco-Roman narratives. This correspondence includes the form of the Matthean dreams, dreams as a motif of the birth topos (1:18b-25), the association of dreams and prophecy (1:22-23; 2:15, 23), the use of the double-dream report (2:12 and 2:13-15), and dreams as an ominous sign in relation to an individual's death (27:19). An appendix considers the Matthean transfiguration as a dream-vision report.

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