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Archiv für Religionsgeschichte

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Philo of Alexandria’s Dream Classification

Archiv für Religionsgeschichte March 1, 2014 Sofía Torallas Tovar 3 citations

Abstract The Stoic three-fold classification of dreams provided Philo with a structure upon which he built his treatise on Dreams. This treatise was meant to comment on the dreams appearing in the book of Genesis, in the strict order of their appearance in the Scripture. The classification as presented by him added a gradation which classifies dreams by their phenomenology and the clarity of...