Where dreams may come: : incubation sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman world / / by Gil H. Renberg.
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 proph...
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| Superior document: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Volume 184 |
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| 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. |
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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.