Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture

by Patricia Cox Miller

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Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers and theologians, polytheists and monotheists alike. Finding it difficult to account for the prevalence of dream-divination, modern scholarship has often condemned it as a cultural weakness, a mass lapse into mere superstition. In this book, Patricia Cox Miller draws on pagan, Jewish, and Christian sources...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691058350

ISBN13:9780691058351

Release Date:December 1997

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.93 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Religion Religion & Spirituality Social Science Social Sciences

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