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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renberg, Gil H., author.

Series:

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; Volume 184.

Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 0927-7633 ; Volume 184

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Incubation (Religion)--Egypt.

Incubation (Religion).

Incubation (Religion)--Greece.

Incubation (Religion)--Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,046 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 21, 2017).

ISBN:

90-04-33023-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004330238 DOI