Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt

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). Doru Costache is Senior Lecturer in Patristic Studies at St Cyril's Coptic Orthodox Theological College in Sydney and Honorary Associate of Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney. He is co-author of Știință și Teologie: Preliminarii pentru Dialog (2001) and co-editor of Well-Being, Personal Wholeness and the Social Fabric (2017). Kevin Wagnew is Lecturer in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. He has been the principal convenor of the Theology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium series of conferences and is the lead editor of the accompanying book series.

'This volume is based on meticulous research in the primary Christian, Jewish, and classical traditions and on deep engagement with the secondary sources … Recommended.' M. M. Hawkins, Choice

• 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.