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Author Neil, Bronwen, author.

Title Dreams and divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE / Bronwen Neil
Edition First edition
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages)
Series Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions.
Summary 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. --Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-229) and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from digital cover (viewed on December 28, 2020)
Subject Dreams -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500
Dream interpretation -- History -- To 1500
Dream interpretation
Dreams -- Religious aspects
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191914171
0191914177