Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE - Bronwen Neil

Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE

By Bronwen Neil

  • Release Date: 2021-01-14
  • Genre: Bible Studies

Description

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.

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