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ISBN10: 0198871147, ISBN13: 9780198871149, [publisher: Early English Text Society Mär 2021] Hardcover Neuware - Why did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium Bronwen Neil shows how the three faiths took the pagan practice of divining the future from dreams and melded it with their own scriptural traditions to produce a novel and rich culture of dream interpretation. [Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2021]
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ISBN10: 0198871147, ISBN13: 9780198871149, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 religiousgatherings. 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 ownscriptural 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 exposethe 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. Why did dreams matt ...
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Hardback. New. Why did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium? Bronwen Neil shows how the three faiths took the pagan practice of divining the future from dreams and melded it with their own scriptural traditions to produce a novel and rich culture of dream interpretation. ISBN 0198871147 9780198871149 [GB]
ISBN10: 0198871147, ISBN13: 9780198871149, [publisher: Early English Text Society Mär 2021] Hardcover Neuware - Why did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium Bronwen Neil shows how the three faiths took the pagan practice of divining the future from dreams and melded it with their own scriptural traditions to produce a novel and rich culture of dream interpretation. [Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2021]
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