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Dreams and divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE
- Title
- Dreams and divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE / Bronwen Neil.
- Author
- Neil, Bronwen
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- viii, 240 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Why did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium? Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE shows how the ability to interpret dreams universally attracted power and influence in the first millennium. In a time when prophetic dreams were viewed as God's intervention in human history, male and female prophets wielded was unparalleled power in imperial courts, military camps, and religious gatherings. The three faiths drew on the ancient Near Eastern tradition of dream key manuals, which offer an insight into the hopes and fears of ordinary people. They melded pagan dream divination with their own scriptural traditions to produce a novel and rich culture of dream interpretation. Prophetic dreams enabled communities to understand their past and present circumstances as divinely ordained and helped to bolster the spiritual authority of dreamers and those who had the gift of interpreting their dreams. Bronwen Neil takes a gendered approach to the analysis of the common culture of dream interpretation across late antique Jewish, Byzantine, and Islamic sources to 1000 CE, in order to expose the ways in which dreams offered women a unique opportunity to exercise influence. The epilogue to the volume reveals why dreams still matter today to many men and women of the monotheist traditions.
- Series Statement
- Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
- Uniform Title
- Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-229) and indexes.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-2151
- ISBN
- 0198871147
- 9780198871149
- LCCN
- 2020942627
- OCLC
- 1161218645
- Author
- Neil, Bronwen, author.
- Title
- Dreams and divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE / Bronwen Neil.
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religionsOxford studies in the Abrahamic religions.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-229) and indexes.
- Chronological Term
- To 1500
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Neil, Bronwen. Dreams and divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE. First edition. Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021 9780191914171 (OCoLC)1197720488
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-2151