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In the Dream of Gudea, the Sumerian ruler sleeps at a sanctuary, prays, and receives a dream granting divine approval to build the temple. 1 Kings shows Solomon doing the same at Gibeon, where God appears in a dream.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE

Gudea Cylinders A i 27

The Dream of Gudea; Building of Ningirsu's Temple
Ancient Near East, Sumerian
17 Toward his lord by day and in the middle of the night, 18 Gudea looked toward Lord Ningirsu, 19 who commanded him concerning the building of his temple, 20 and upon Eninnu, whose divine decrees are great, 21 he turned his gaze. 22 Gudea, whose heart is profound, 23 pondered these words with a sigh: 24 “Truly, truly I must speak of it; truly, truly I must speak of it! 25 With this command I will go forward. 26 I am the shepherd, and princely rule has been bestowed upon me. 27 What the middle of the night has brought to me— 28 its meaning I do not understand. 29 To my mother my dream truly I will report;
Date: 2125 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)

1 Kings 3:5

Hebrew Bible
4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. Solomon would offer up 1,000 burnt sacrifices on the altar there. 5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell me what I should give you.” 6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.
Date: 6th century BCE (final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References

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... We find, then, a great similarity between these accounts and the tradition concerning the construction of the Solomonic temple. It is interesting to note, however, that the resemblance is confined to the pre-deuteronomic strand of the Biblical narrative (5: 16-8: 13; 8: 62-6), whereas the deuteronomic traditions (3: 5-14; 8: 14-61; 9: 3-9) present an entirely different picture. While Gudea, Esarhaddon, Nabonidus, and Baal await a prophetic dream or divine approval to signal the beginning of the construction, Solomon's dream at Gibeon, according to the deuteronomic account, serves merely as the medium through which the Deity promises him judicial wisdom ... It appears, therefore, that the pre-deuteronomic source contained traditions similar to those found in the extra-Biblical accounts of sanctuary building cited above, but that they had been reworked by the Deuteronomist who wished to accommodate them to his own purposes. The dreams at Gibeon, where the great high place stood, seem originally to have pertained like Nathan's dream, the Patriarchal dreams, and those of Gudea and Nabonidus, to the building of the temple. The purpose of Solomon's journey to Gibeon apparently was to receive a revelation conveying divine permission to begin the construction of a temple; this is why he offers up a holocaust of a thousand sacrifices and spends the night in the sanctuary (= incubation) ...
Weinfeld, Moshe Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School (pp. 248-250) Clarendon Press, 1972

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