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is that of the oracle by night in the sanctuary to the young Samuel (1 Sam. 3). The dream was early recognized as one of the normal ways of divine revelation; so 1 Sam. 28:6: “YHWH answered Saul neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.” But visions and dreams were inferior to the direct word-of-mouth revelations given to Moses (Num. 12:6ff.). The Biblical dreams located at sanctuaries, Beersheba, Bethel, Shiloh, Gibeon, doubtless had connexion in fact with the ancient practice of oneiromancy
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