The prophet Samuel, hypnagogic hallucinations and the voice of God – psychiatry and sacred texts

摘要

The Hebrew book known as Samuel , written originally by an anonymous author in perhaps the 6th century BCE, gives an account (1 Samuel 3:1-14) of how Samuel, as a young person, first hears the voice of God. Laying down to sleep one night in the temple at Shiloh, where he is an attendant supporting