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

Bronwen (Professor of Ancient History, Macquarie University.) Neil

Oxford University Press, 2021

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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-13
9780198871149
ISBN-10
0198871147
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2021
Publication date
2021-01-14
Pages
256
Dimensions
223x146x20
Weight
428