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[German Version] I. Neurobiology and Psychology – II. Religious Studies – III. Ancient Near East and Old Testament – IV. Early Judaism – V. Greco-Roman Antiquity – VI. New Testament – VII. Church History – VIII. Fundamental Theology – IX. Practical Theology – X. Missiology – XI. Art History I. Neurobiology and Psychology Dreams are hallucinatory experiences that generally occur during sleep. Unlike real experiences, they involve associations that are temporally, spatially, and emot…

[German Version] of Ephesus (2nd cent. bce), the most important dream researcher and dream interpreter of Greek antiquity; defender of a secularized manticism (Divination) with scientific claim. In his five books of oneiro-critica, a textbook of dream interpretation, Artemidorus presented encyclopedically and systematically the assembled knowledge of dreams of his time. As a standard work, it was not replaced until S. Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1900). Artemidorus's importance lies in the fact that he conceived of …