Book
Where dreams may come: incubation sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman world
| العنوان: | Where dreams may come: incubation sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman world |
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| المؤلفون: | Renberg, Gil H. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| سلاسل: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman world 184. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Incubation (Religion) -- Egypt, Incubation (Religion) -- Greece, Incubation (Religion) -- Middle East |
| الوصف: | 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. |
| Contents Note: | Volume I. Preliminary Material pp.: i-lxix -- General Introduction pp.: 1-35 -- Early Development of Incubation pp.: 36-111 -- Therapeutic Incubation in the Greek World: Asklepios pp.: 113-270 -- Therapeutic Incubation in the Greek World: Other Greek Cults pp.: 271-309 -- Divinatory Incubation in the Greek World pp.: 310-326 -- Sarapis and Isis pp.: 327-393 -- Saqqâra and the “House of Osiris-Apis” pp.: 394-447 -- Amenhotep and Imhotep at Deir el-Bahari and Thebes pp.: 448-483 -- Other Egyptian Cults pp.: 484-519. Volume II. Sites Insufficiently, Dubiously or Wrongly Linked to Incubation pp.: 521-564 -- Other Forms of Direct Divination at Sanctuaries: Auditory Epiphanies, Induced Visions, and the Question of Voice-Oracles in Egypt pp.: 565-602 -- Sources for “Fertility Incubation” from Greece, Egypt and the Ancient Near East pp.: 603-612 -- Proxy Incubation and Priestly Incubation pp.: 613-620 -- The Language of Pre-Incubatory Prayer pp.: 621-624 -- Dietary Restrictions, Fasting and Incubation pp.: 625-627 -- Were the Sexes Separated During Incubation? pp.: 628-633 -- Illustrated Catalog of Incubation Reliefs from the Cults of Asklepios and Amphiaraos pp.: 634-653 -- Incubation Reliefs beyond Attica? pp.: 654-659 -- Problems Concerning the Early Cult and Oracle of Amphiaraos pp.: 660-676 -- Hypnos/Somnus and Oneiros as Evidence for Incubation at Asklepieia: A Reassessment pp.: 677-688 -- Libanius and Asklepios: A Case Study pp.: 689-713 -- The “Letter on a Stele” as Possible Evidence for Incubation in Third Millennium bce Egypt pp.: 714-716 -- Dream Interpreters and Incubation at Egyptian Sanctuaries pp.: 717-734 -- Egyptian Festivals and Divinatory Incubation pp.: 735-744 -- Incubation in Late Antique Christianity: A Bibliographical Survey and Analysis of the Sources pp.: 745-807 -- Lepers' Visions at Hammat Gader (Emmatha): A Form of Incubation in Late Antique Syria? pp.: 808-814 -- Bibliography -- Indexes. |
| Original Identifier: | IsJJNL: 004392120NNL01-Aleph OCoLC: 1004263342 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Monograph |
| اللغة: | English |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsram.990043921200205171 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | RAMBI |
| الوصف غير متاح. |