The Sibylline Oracles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sibylline Oracles write by Milton S. Terry. This book was released on 2012. The Sibylline Oracles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the oracles in religion * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices THE Sibyls occupy a conspicuous place in the traditions and history of ancient Greece and Rome. Their fame was spread abroad long before the beginning of the Christian era. Heraclitus of Ephesus, five centuries before Christ, compared himself to the Sibyl "who, speaking with inspired mouth, without a smile, without ornament, and without perfume, penetrates through centuries by the power of the gods." The ancient traditions vary in reporting the number and the names of these weird prophetesses, and much of what has been handed down to us is legendary. But whatever opinion one may hold respecting the various legends, there can be little doubt that a collection of Sibylline Oracles was at one time preserved at Rome. There are, moreover, various oracles, purporting to have been written by ancient Sibyls, found in the writings of Pausanias, Plutarch, Livy, and in other Greek and Latin authors. Whether any of these citations formed a portion of the Sibylline books once kept in Rome we cannot now determine; but the Roman capitol was destroyed by fire in the time of Sulla (B. C. 84), and again in the time of Vespasian (A. D. 69), and whatever books were at those dates kept therein doubtless perished in the flames. It is said by some of the ancients that a subsequent collection of oracles was made, but, if so, there is now no certainty that any fragments of them remain.
Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and its Social Setting
Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and its Social Setting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and its Social Setting write by Rieuwerd Buitenwerf. This book was released on 2021-08-04. Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and its Social Setting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume contains a thorough study of the third book of the Sibylline Oracles. This Jewish work was written in the Roman province of Asia sometime between 80 and 40 BCE. It offers insights into the political views of the author and his perception of the relation between Jews and non-Jews, especially in the field of religion and ethics. The present study consists of three parts: 1. introductory questions; 2. a literary analysis of the book, translation, and commentary; 3. the social setting of the book. It aims to further the scholarly use of the third Sibylline book and to improve our knowledge of early Judaism in its Graeco-Roman environment.
The Sibylline Oracles
The Sibylline Oracles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sibylline Oracles write by J. L. Lightfoot. This book was released on 2007-12-13. The Sibylline Oracles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Sibyl was a legendary figure in Greco-Roman antiquity. J. L. Lightfoot describes how the verse prophecies attributed to her were taken over by Hellenistic Jews, and later by Christians, as a vehicle for their own understandings of prophecy, and provides an edition, translation, and commentary on the first and second books of extant oracles.
Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles
Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles write by Ashley Bacchi. This book was released on 2020-04-28. Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles, Ashley L. Bacchi reclaims the importance of the Sibyl as a female voice of prophecy, revealing intertextual references and political commentary on second-century events in Ptolemaic Egypt.
Prophetic Rivalry, Gender, and Economics
Prophetic Rivalry, Gender, and Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prophetic Rivalry, Gender, and Economics write by Olivia Stewart Lester. This book was released on 2018-07-16. Prophetic Rivalry, Gender, and Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Olivia Stewart Lester examines true and false prophecy at the intersections of interpretation, gender, and economics in Revelation, Sibylline Oracles 4-5, and contemporary ancient Mediterranean texts. With respect to gender, these texts construct a discourse of divine violence against prophets, in which masculine divine domination of both male and female prophets reinforces the authenticity of the prophetic message. Regarding economics, John and the Jewish sibyllists resist the economic actions of political groups around them, especially Rome, by imagining an alternate universe with a new prophetic economy. In this economy, God requires restitution from human beings, whose evil behavior incurs debt. The ongoing appeal of prophecy as a rhetorical strategy in Revelation and Sibylline Oracles 4-5, and the ongoing rivalries in which these texts engage, argue for prophecy's continuing significance in a larger ancient Mediterranean religious context.
