JWST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dream Interpretation, Book Of Deuteronomy, Sidon

• School: McGill University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JWST 211
• Professor: Barry Levy

Document Summary

Had a dream that 11 stocks of wheat bowed down to him. Had a dream that sun, moon, 11 stars bowed to him. When joseph was in prison, he ran into two court officials, they had each had a dream. Two types of dreams in ancient near east. Message dreams somebody (angel, god) appears to dreamer, gives them a message symbol dreams someone sees something, from that object one can deduce a message. When the story is finished, joseph has a reputation for being a dream there are books that explain how to interpret dreams interpreter, says they are interpretations from god. Joseph predicts there is going to be a famine, people from all around come so they can survive. Possibility: hiksos invaded and took over egypt around the same time that. Joseph rose to power suggests that joseph rose to power as part of the hiksos take over of egypt.