Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)

^ Read ^ Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) by Gil Renberg ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) Renbergs exhaustive study represents the first attempt to collect and analyze the evidence for incubation from Sumerian to Byzantine and Merovingian times, thus making an important contribution to religious history.. Renberg examines the ancient religious phenomenon of incubation, the ritual of sleeping at a divinitys sanctuary in order to obtain a prophetic or therapeutic dream. Most prominently associated with the Panhellenic healing god Asklepios, incubation was also practiced at the cult

Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)

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Rating : 4.80 (890 Votes)
Asin : 9004299769
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 247 Pages
Publish Date : 2016-06-12
Language : English

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About the AuthorGil H. Renberg, Ph.D. Louis, is an American ancient historian and classicist whose work primarily focuses on the religious beliefs and practices of the Greeks and Romans, especially those revealed by material culture. (2003), who has taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Washington University in St.

(2003), who has taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Washington University in St. Renberg, Ph.D. . Louis, is an American ancient historian and classicist whose work primarily focuses on the religious beliefs and practices of the Greeks and Romans, especially those revealed by material culture. Gil H

Renberg's exhaustive study represents the first attempt to collect and analyze the evidence for incubation from Sumerian to Byzantine and Merovingian times, thus making an important contribution to religious history.. Renberg examines the ancient religious phenomenon of "incubation," the ritual of sleeping at a divinity's sanctuary in order to obtain a prophetic or therapeutic dream. Most prominently associated with the Panhellenic healing god Asklepios, incubation was also practiced at the cult sites of numerous other divinities throughout the Greek world, but it is first known from ancient Near Eastern sources and was established in Pharaonic Egypt by the time of the Macedonian conquest; later, Christian worship came to include similar practices. In this book, Gil H