I Lifted My Eyes and Saw'

Reading Dream and Vision Reports in the Hebrew Bible

Elizabeth R. Hayes, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Elizabeth R. Hayes, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780567666772
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567655394
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

This volume addresses the function and impact of vision and dream accounts in the Hebrew Bible. The contributors explore the exegetical, rhetorical, and structural aspects of the vision and dream accounts in the Hebrew Bible, focusing on prophetic vision reports. Several contributors employ a diachronic approach as they explore the textual relationship between the vision reports and the oracular material. Others focus on the rhetorical aspects of the vision reports in their final form and discuss why vision reporting may be used to convey a message. Another approach employed looks at reception history and investigates how this type of text has been understood by past exegetes. A few chapters consider the inter-textual relationship of the various vision reports in the Hebrew Bible, focusing on shared themes and motifs. There are also papers that deal with the ways in which select texts in the Hebrew Bible portray dream/vision interpreters and their activities.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• List of Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• INTRODUCTION
• ASSESSING THE PROPHETIC VISION AND DREAM TEXTS FOR INSIGHTS INTO RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE -- Rodney A. Werline
• THE POLYVALENCE OF ZECHARIAH’S VISION REPORT -- Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
• THE DREAMS IN THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE AND THEIR IMPACT IN BIBLICAL LITERATURE -- Camilla von Heijne
• VISION BEYOND THE VISIONS IN JEREMIAH -- Pamela Scalise
• THE ROLE OF VISIONARY EXPERIENCES FOR ESTABLISHING PROPHETIC AUTHORITY IN ISAIAH, JEREMIAH AND EZEKIEL: SAME, SIMILAR, OR DIFFERENT? -- Elizabeth R. Hayes
• ENVISIONING RESTORATION: INNOVATIONS IN EZEKIEL 40–48 -- Michael A. Lyons
• VISION AND CURSE AVERSION IN THE BOOK OF AMOS -- Jason Radine
• WRITING THE VISION: ZECHARIAH WITHIN THE VISIONARY TRADITIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE -- Mark J. Boda
• THE ESCHATOLOGY OF ZECHARIAH’S NIGHT VISIONS -- Anthony R. Petterson
• INTERPRETING ZECHARIAH’S VISIONS: REDACTION-CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NIGHT VISION CYCLE (ZECHARIAH 1.7–6.8) AND ITS EARLIEST READERS -- Martin Hallaschka
• THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VISION AND ORACLE IN ZECHARIAH 1–6 -- Michael R. Stead
• VISIONS OF LOCUSTS: THE COMPOSITION OF REVELATION 9.7-11 -- Sheree Lear
• MORE THAN A SOURCE? THE IMPACT OF ISAIAH 6 ON THE FORMATION OF THE BOOK OF ISAIAH -- Thomas Wagner
• RESURRECTION AS REWARD FOR THE RIGHTEOUS: THE VISION OF THE DRY BONES IN PSEUDO-EZEKIEL AS EXTERNAL CONTINUATION OF THE BIBLICAL VISION IN EZEKIEL 37.1-14 -- Anja Klein
• ‘TO DO THE WILL OF THEIR MASTER’: RE-ENVISIONING THE CHAYYÔT IN TARGUM JONATHAN OF EZEKIEL -- William A. Tooman
• Index of References
• Index of Authors