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In the Babylonian part of the Talmud, compiled from about 200 B.C. to 300 A.D., there are two hundred seventeen references to dreams. These include such topics as the origin of dreams, their purpose and meaning, wish fulfilment, relation of dreams to reality, and the technique of interpretation. Dreams were believed to stem from external sources (God or demons) or internal (psychological) sources. The Hebrew concept of man's struggle between his good and his immoral, or impure, impulses found expression in these Talmudic references to dreams.