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OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,21/10/2020,SPi OXFORD STUDIES IN THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS GeneralEditors AdamJ.Silverstein GuyG.Stroumsa OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,21/10/2020,SPi OXFORD STUDIES IN THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS This series consists of scholarly monographs and other volumes at the cutting edge of the study of Abrahamic Religions. The increase in intellectual interest in the comparative approach to Judaism, Christianity, andIslamreflectsthestrikingsurgeintheimportanceofreligioustraditions and patterns of thought and behaviour in the twenty-first century, at the global level. While this importance is easy to detect, it remains to be identified clearly and analysed from a comparative perspective. Our existing scholarly apparatus is not always adequate in attempting to understand precisely the nature of similarities and differences between the monotheistic religions, and the transformations of their “family resemblances”indifferentculturalandhistoricalcontexts. Theworksintheseriesaredevotedtothestudyofhow“Abrahamic” traditions mix, blend, disintegrate, rebuild, clash, and impact upon one another, usually in polemical contexts, but also, often, in odd, yet persistentwaysofinteraction,reflectingthesymbiosisbetweenthem. Titlesintheseriesinclude TheMakingoftheAbrahamicReligionsinLateAntiquity GuyG.Stroumsa Judaism,Sufism,andthePietistsofMedievalEgypt AStudyofAbrahamMaimonidesandHisTimes ElishaRuss-Fishbane Purity,Community,andRitualinEarlyChristianLiterature MosheBlidstein IslamanditsPast Jahiliyya,LateAntiquity,andtheQur’an EditedbyCarolBakhosandMichaelCook Goy Israel’sMultipleOthersandtheBirthoftheGentile AdiOphirandIshayRosen-Zvi VeilingEsther,UnveilingHerStory TheReceptionofaBiblicalBookinIslamicLands AdamJ.Silverstein TheGoldenCalfbetweenBibleandQur’an Scripture,Polemic,andExegesisfromLateAntiquitytoIslam MichaelPregill OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,21/10/2020,SPi Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to – Baghdad, 400 1000 BRONWEN NEIL 1 OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,21/10/2020,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©BronwenNeil2021 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2021 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2020942627 ISBN 978–0–19–887114–9 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198871149.001.0001 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby ClaysLtd,ElcografS.p.A. LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,21/10/2020,SPi Acknowledgements Thepublicationofanacademicbookisalwaysagroupeffort.Fortheirsage advice on draft versions of the work, I am truly grateful to Chris Bishop (Canberra), Theo de Bruyn (Ottawa), Alan Cadwallader (Canberra), Doru Costache (Sydney), Mark Edwards (Oxford), Phoebe Garrett (Canberra), Aydogan Karz (Melbourne), Raihan Ismail (Canberra), David Runia (Melbourne),NaokiKamimura(Tokyo),andSatoshiandKeikoTakahashi (Tokyo),amongothers. I owe a great debt of gratitude to Tom Perridge at Oxford University Press, the editors of the series Oxford Studies in the AbrahamicReligions,andthetwoanonymousreviewers,whosesuggestions forimprovementweremostwelcome. Thanksalsotoallwhoencouragedmefromafar,especiallyPaulBlowers (JohnsonCity),EvangelosChrysos(Thessaloniki),CarolHarrison(Oxford), Chris de Wet (Pretoria), and Andrew Louth (Durham). I thank Eirini Pachoumi for her invitation to present a paper at her conference on Praying and Contemplating: Religious and Philosophical Interactions in Late Antiquity at North-West University (Potchefstroom) in March 2016. I am grateful to my former and current higher degree students, Ryan Strickler, Kosta Simic, and Charlie Thorne, and to research associate RachelYuen-Collingridge,whocollectedreferencesfromByzantinesources. Thanks to research assistants Catherine Rosbrook and Phoebe Garrett for their careful proofing and indexing. I have to take full credit for the remainingerrors. Thanks to Rudy Irwan, Iain Edgar, and Raihan Ismail for their learned conversations about Islamic dreaming in the contemporary sphere, and special thanks to the many people of various religious and ethnic back- groundswhospontaneouslysharedtheirdreamswithme.Theirfascination withdreamstoriesconvincedmethatthesubjectwouldpasstheinfamous ‘pubtest’andwasthereforeworthpursuing. The Australian Research Council generously supported this research through a Future Fellowship FT140100226 (2014–18) on Dreams, Prophecy, and Violence from Early Christianity to the Rise of Islam. Throughoutthisproject,Ihavebenefitedfromaccesstovariousmarvellous libraries, including the Bodleian, and the collections of the University of OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,21/10/2020,SPi vi Ottawa, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Macquarie University, Australian Catholic University, the Australian National University, the Bill Bryson Library at Durham University, and the National Library of Australia. The OfficeofResearchandtheFacultyofArtsatMacquarieUniversity(Sydney) providedgenerousfinancialandmoralsupport. ColleaguesintheDepartmentofAncientHistoryatMacquariehavebeen welcomingandtolerantofmyByzantinepursuits.Iamverygratefulforthe chancetocollaboratewithEvaAnagnostou-Laoutides,whoco-convenedthe AustralianAssociationforByzantineStudiesconferenceonDreams,Memory and Imagination in Byzantium at Monash University (Melbourne) in February 2017 and co-edited the proceedings published in the Brill series Byzantina Australiensia in 2018. The Macquarie University Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment (CACHE) offered an interdis- ciplinaryresearchenvironmentthatwasstimulatingandchallenging.Sotoo did the Institute for Advanced Studies at Durham University, where I was fortunatetoholdafellowshipduringEpiphanytermin2020. Thanks to all my former colleagues in the Centre for Early Christian Studies, who were such an important part of the previous chapter of my academiclifeattheAustralianCatholicUniversity,wherethisprojectbegan. To Mary Neil, Elizabeth McBride, and other family and friends, especially Margie Moore, Alison Wishart, and Sandra Sewell, thank you for your continued interest in the project and good humour throughout. Most of all, I want to thank my partner and our daughter for putting up with my being absent, especially while working at home. As my late grandfather wouldsay,paxvobiscum. OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,21/10/2020,SPi Abbreviations AP ApophthegmataPatrum APanon ApophthegmataPatrum(AnonymousCollection) BT BabylonianTalmud CCSL CorpusChristianorumSeriesLatina CPG ClavisPatrumGraecorum CSEL CorpusScriptorumEcclesiasticorumLatinorum FOTC FathersoftheChurch NIV NewInternationalVersionoftheBible NRSV NewRevisedStandardVersionoftheBible PG PatrologiaGraeca PL PatrologiaLatina PT PalestinianTalmud Q. Qur’an SBL SocietyofBiblicalLiterature SC Sourceschrétiennes SM SpiritualMeadow TTH TranslatedTextsforHistorians OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,21/10/2020,SPi OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,21/10/2020,SPi Note on Transliteration Arabic names have been transliterated with only two diacritics, those for hamza and ayn. Since there are at least three sets of international conven- tions in use, I have chosen the simplest system: a single closing inverted commaforthevoicelessglottalstophamza,asinru’ya;andasingleopening inverted comma for the voiced pharyngeal fricative ayn, as in Sa‘d. Other diacriticsareomittedexceptwheretheseoccurinthetitlesofworkscitedin thebibliography.IhavealsousedtheAnglicizedversionofplacenameslike MeccaandMedina. OUPCORRECTEDAUTOPAGEPROOFS–FINAL,21/10/2020,SPi
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