Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE

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 pow...