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Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explores the significance of dreams in early Christian Egypt, using sources from Philo and Origen to Athanasius and early monks.
Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages
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Authors: Jesse Keskiaho
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A comprehensive overview of ideas about dreams and visions in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages.
Spiritual Direction As a Medical Art in Early Christian Monasticism
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What expectations did the women and men living in early monastic communities carry into relationships of obedience and advice? What did they hope to achieve thr
Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE
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Why did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium? Bronwen Neil shows how the three faiths took the pagan practice of div