Dreams, Prophecy and Violence from Early Christianity to the Rise of Islam

在古典希腊罗马社会，梦或幻觉有时被理解为神圣启示的载体。早期的基督徒和穆斯林发展了对梦的宗教解释，用它来支持他们的领袖的宗教权威，这些领袖声称自己是犹太传统的先知，他们带来了真主的信息。该项目旨在揭示从古典到早期基督教再到早期伊斯兰教的梦解释的发展过程，并了解梦和幻象如何被用作宗教控制的工具和对其他宗教实施暴力的理由。

In Classical Greco-Roman society dreams or visions were sometimes understood as vehicles of divine revelation. Early Christians and Muslims developed the religious interpretation of dreams, using it to bolster the religious authority of their leaders, who laid claim to the Jewish tradition of prophets who brought messages from God. This project aims to uncover the development of dream interpretation from Classical Antiquity through early Christianity to early Islam and give an understanding of how dreams and visions were used as tools of religious control and as justification of violence against other religions.