Where dreams may come: : incubation sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman world / / by Gil H. Renberg.

• Superior document: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Volume 184
• VerfasserIn: Renberg, Gil H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; Volume 184.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1,046 pages) :; illustrations, maps, photographs.

Where Dreams May Come was the winner of the 2018 Charles J . Goodwin Award of Merit, awarded by the Society for Classical Studies. In this book, Gil H. 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. 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. This set consists of two books.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material Volume I / Gil H. Renberg -- General Introduction / Gil H. Renberg -- Early Development of Incubation / Gil H. Renberg -- Therapeutic Incubation in the Greek World: Asklepios / Gil H. Renberg -- Therapeutic Incubation in the Greek World: Other Greek Cults / Gil H. Renberg -- Divinatory Incubation in the Greek World / Gil H. Renberg -- Sarapis and Isis / Gil H. Renberg -- Saqqâra and the “House of Osiris-Apis” / Gil H. Renberg -- Amenhotep and Imhotep at Deir el-Bahari and Thebes / Gil H. Renberg -- Other Egyptian Cults / Gil H. Renberg -- Sites Insufficiently, Dubiously or Wrongly Linked to Incubation / Gil H. Renberg -- Other Forms of Direct Divination at Sanctuaries: Auditory Epiphanies, Induced Visions, and the Question of Voice-Oracles in Egypt / Gil H. Renberg -- Sources for “Fertility Incubation” from Greece, Egypt and the Ancient Near East / Gil H. Renberg -- Proxy Incubation and Priestly Incubation / Gil H. Renberg -- The Language of Pre-Incubatory Prayer / Gil H. Renberg -- Dietary Restrictions, Fasting and Incubation / Gil H. Renberg -- Were the Sexes Separated During Incubation? / Gil H. Renberg -- Illustrated Catalog of Incubation Reliefs from the Cults of Asklepios and Amphiaraos / Gil H. Renberg -- Incubation Reliefs beyond Attica? / Gil H. Renberg -- Problems Concerning the Early Cult and Oracle of Amphiaraos / Gil H. Renberg -- Hypnos/Somnus and Oneiros as Evidence for Incubation at Asklepieia: A Reassessment / Gil H. Renberg -- Libanius and Asklepios: A Case Study / Gil H. Renberg -- The “Letter on a Stele” as Possible Evidence for Incubation in Third Millennium bce Egypt / Gil H. Renberg -- Dream Interpreters and Incubation at Egyptian Sanctuaries / Gil H. Renberg -- Egyptian Festivals and Divinatory Incubation / Gil H. Renberg -- Incubation in Late Antique Christianity: A Bibliographical Survey and Analysis of the Sources / Gil H. Renberg -- Lepers’ Visions at Hammat Gader (Emmatha): A Form of Incubation in Late Antique Syria? / Gil H. Renberg -- Bibliography / Gil H. Renberg -- Index Locorum / Gil H. Renberg -- Index Verborum / Gil H. Renberg -- General Index / Gil H. Renberg -- Concordances to Index Locorum / Gil H. Renberg.