Bronwen Neil, Doru Costache, Kevin Wagner

Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the significance of dreams in early Christian Egypt, using sources from Philo and Origen to Athanasius and early monks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 216mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781108481182
• ISBN-10: 1108481183
• Artikelnr.: 54607692

Autorenporträt

Bronwen Neil is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and Research Fellow of the University of South Africa. She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor (2015), Collecting Early Christian Letters (Cambridge, 2015) and A Companion to Gregory the Great (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. An introduction to Greco-Roman traditions on dreams and virtue Bronwen Neil
2. The development of an Alexandrian tradition Bronwen Neil
3. Sleep, dreams and soul-travel: Athanasius within the tradition Doru Costache
4. Synesius of Cyrene and Neoplatonic dream theory Kevin Wagner
5. Expanding beyond the Egyptian ascetic tradition Bronwen Neil.