Name: Dreams and Divination From Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 ce (Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions) (in English)
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Author: Neil Gaiman
ISBN: 9780198871149

portada Dreams and Divination From Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 ce (Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Neil Gaiman

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780198871149

Synopsis "Dreams and Divination From Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 ce (Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions) (in English)"

Why did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium? Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400 - 1000 CE shows how the ability to interpret dreams universally attracted power and influence in the first millennium. In a time when prophetic dreams were viewed as God's intervention in human history, male and female prophets wielded was unparalleled power in imperial courts, military camps, and religious gatherings. The three faiths drew on the ancient Near Eastern tradition of dream key manuals, which offer an insight into the hopes and fears of ordinary people. They melded pagan dream divination with their own scriptural traditions to produce a novel and rich culture of dream interpretation. Prophetic dreams enabled communities to understand their past and present circumstances as divinely ordained and helped to bolster the spiritual authority of dreamers and those who had the gift of interpreting their dreams. Bronwen Neil takes agendered approach to the analysis of the common culture of dream interpretation across late antique Jewish, Byzantine, and Islamic sources to 1000 CE, in order to expose the ways in which dreams offered women a unique opportunity to exercise influence. The epilogue to the volume reveals why dreams still matter today to many men and women of the monotheist traditions.

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Neil Gaiman ha alcanzado la fama como autor de libros, novelas gráficas, relatos cortos y películas para públicos de todas las edades.

Entre sus títulos más notables se hallan The Sandman, el innovador cómic que alcanzó el primer puesto en la lista de los libros más vendidos de The New York Times, y que fue merecedor de nueve Premios Eisner y del World Fantasy Award en la categoría de Mejor historia corta; El libro del cementerio, primera obra en ganar a un tiempo la medalla Newberry y la medalla Carnegie; American Gods, que en breve será adaptada a la pequeña pantalla en Estados Unidos; y El océano al final del camino, que en 2013 ganó el National Book Award al Libro del Año en Gran Bretaña.

La adaptación cinematográfica de Cómo hablar con chicas en fiestas, dirigida por John Cameron Mitchell, llegará a los cines en 2017.

Nacido en Gran Bretaña, Neil reside actualmente en EE. UU. con su esposa, la escritora y vocalista Amanda Palmer, y junto al hijo que tienen en común, Anthony.

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