The Interpretation of Dreams over others (including Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Janet, and Richard von Krafft-Ebing) in silence, and with systematically avoiding "citing the passages in the works of his predecessors which came closest to his own theories." Neuropsychoanalyst Mark Blechner maintains that even if one does not agree with Freud's theories that all dreams are wish-fulfillments and that the strangeness of dreams is due to mental disguise, "The Interpretation of Dreams" remains an extraordinary scientific record of dream texts and an analysis of the mental operations that dreams demonstrate. The first translation from German into English was completed by A. A. Brill, a Freudian
Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls? interpretation of an ancient site and particular readings of ancient documents became a straitjacket for subsequent discussion of what is arguably the most widely publicized set of discoveries in the history of biblical archaeology... Especially interesting is the account of events related to the exhibition of scroll fragments in the United States in 1993-1994. What is most distressing here is the reluctance of so many parties to the scrolls controversy—by then widely publicized—to engage in a full and free discussion of the many questions which had arisen." Reviewing the British edition of the work, Daniel O'Hara stated that Golb "gives