Sibylline Oracles

The former (first) of these two type was practiced by the Sibylline oracles.

The earliest written version of this legend is found in the Sibylline Oracles.

The Sibylline Oracles in their existing form are a chaotic medley.

This article is about the Sibylline Oracles.

The so-called Sibylline oracles are couched in classical hexameter verses.

Tartarus also appears in sections of the Jewish Sibylline Oracles.

Here Whiston visited him, and suggested a critical examination of the Sibylline oracles, which he didn't complete.

Fourteen books and eight fragments of Sibylline Oracles survive, in an edition of the 6th or 7th century.

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Sibylline Oracles.

Augustine quotes also an ancient text from the Sibylline oracles whose verses are an acrostic of the generating sentence.

Pseudo-Justin also quotes and discusses some Sibylline oracles.

The oldest of the surviving Sibylline oracles seem to be books 3-5, which were composed partly by Jews in Alexandria.

A passage in the Sibylline Oracles is interpreted by Hartmann as an indication of the second invasion.

This text goes along with Jeremiah and Sibylline Oracles 4 to express a minority tradition within Jewish literature.

The only more extensive remnant of the Greco-Jewish poets is that found in the Sibylline Oracles.

The Sibylline Oracles, Book 5 and 8, written in the 2nd century, speak of Nero returning and bringing destruction.

Hellenistic and later Greek literature Current Projects: Commentary on the first and second Sibylline oracles.

During his reign, the Roman state apparently acquired the so-called Sibylline Oracles, books of prophecy and sacred rituals .

The term does occasionally however denote "an eschatological event," such as in the Assumption of Moses and the Sibylline Oracles.

Milik has argued that it is Byzantine and Christian in origin, comparing it to the Sibylline Oracles.

These sayings and sibyls should not to be confused with the extant 6th-century collection of Sibylline Oracles, which typically predict disasters rather than prescribe solutions.

The temple (aedes) of Flora, for instance, was built in 241 BC by two aediles acting on Sibylline oracles.

It was re-built by Lucius Cornelius Sulla after consulting the Sibylline Oracles.

In 1545 Betuleius published at Basel an edition of eight books of the Sibylline oracles with a preface dating from perhaps the sixth century.