Publisher's Synopsis
Annette Zgoll offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of both Sumerian and Akkadian terminology of dreams as well as an overview of dreams as they are presented in Mesopotamian literature, royal inscriptions and letters. A third part is devoted to theory and praxis of dreams in Mesopotamian culture: incubation and interpretations of dreams, gods transmitting dreams, human specialists of dreams, apotropaic rituals. A forth part provides the reader with a summary of all aspects of the study in a nutshell.
