Jean-Marie Husser is professor of the history of religions in the Faculty of Historical Sciences, University of Strasbourg (France), where he currently heads the Department of History of Religions. His main interests are the ancient religions of Syro-Phoenicia, in particular Ugarit, and Jewish apocalyptic movements. He is the author of Le Songe et la parole: Etude sur le rêve et sa fonction dans l’ancien Israël (de Gruyter, 1994) and Dreams and Dream Narratives in the Biblical World (Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), and is co-editor with A. Mouton of Le Cauchemar dans les sociétés antiques (De Boccard, 2010).