The Sibylline Oracles (Latin: Oracula Sibyllina; sometimes called the pseudo-Sibylline Oracles)[citation needed] are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in a frenzied state. Fourteen books and eight fragments of Sibylline Oracles survive, in an edition of the 6th or 7th century AD. They are not to be confused with the original Sibylline Books of the ancient Etruscans and Romans which were burned by order of the Roman general Flavius Stilicho in the 4th century AD. Instead, the text is an "odd pastiche" of Hellenistic and Roman mythology interspersed with Jewish, Gnostic and early Christian legend.[1]
The Sibylline Oracles are a valuable source for information about classical mythology and early first millennium Gnostic, Hellenistic Jewish and Christian beliefs. Some apocalyptic passages scattered throughout seem to foreshadow themes of the Book of Revelation and other apocalyptic literature. The oracles have undergone extensive editing, re-writing, and redaction as they came to be exploited in wider circles.
One passage has an acrostic, spelling out a Christian code-phrase with the first letters of successive lines.
^Terry, M. S. (1899). The Sibylline Oracles. Archived from the original on 2002-06-06.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) The content of the individual books is probably of different age, dated to anywhere between the 1st and 7th centuries AD. Collins, J. J. (1983). "Sibylline Oracles (Second Century B.C.–Seventh Century A.D)". In Charlesworth (ed.). Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Vol. 1. Hendrickson. pp. 317–472.
The SibyllineOracles (Latin: Oracula Sibyllina; sometimes called the pseudo-SibyllineOracles)[citation needed] are a collection of oracular utterances...
rest being lost or deliberately destroyed. The Sibylline Books are not the same as the SibyllineOracles, twelve books of prophecies thought to be of Judaeo-Christian...
becoming lord of the world (3.73.7–8). Cronus is mentioned in the SibyllineOracles, particularly in book three, wherein Cronus, 'Titan,' and Iapetus...
mythical prophetess unrelated to the traditions of the oracle itself." Fragments of the SibyllineOracles. sacred-texts.com. Retrieved on June 20, 2008. Pausanias...
was written about 100 AD. The Apocalypse is quoted in Book 2 of the SibyllineOracles (c. 150), and cited by name and quoted in Clement of Alexandria's...
Peloponnese, and at the islands of Delos and Aegina in the Aegean Sea. The SibyllineOracles are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters...
sōtḗr (Σωτήρ), "Savior" Augustine quotes an ancient text from the Sibyllineoracles whose verses are an acrostic of the generating sentence. A fourth...
of Jesus Christ. This claim comes from the SibyllineOracles, which are not to be confused with the Sibylline Books. The Hellespontian Sibyl was born in...
number of writers were stating that Nero killed Peter and Paul. The SibyllineOracles, Book 5 and 8, written in the second century, speak of Nero returning...
authority of the SibyllineOracles for the conflation of the Latin letter Y with the Greek: υ or Υ (upsilon): ... the Sybils Oracles, who in the name...
author of the Sibyllineoracles, a collection of texts of c. the 2nd to 4th century which were collected in the 6th century. Sibyllineoracles Wives aboard...
return. The earliest written version of this legend is found in the SibyllineOracles. It claims that Nero did not really die but fled to Parthia, where...
Elysium (Islands of the Blessed) with the "blameless" heroes. In the Sibyllineoracles, a curious hodgepodge of Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian elements...
the Gospel of Luke.[citation needed] In 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch and the SibyllineOracles, "Babylon" is a cryptic name for Rome. In Revelation 17:9 it is said...
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entirety, is a later addition. Pointing to similarities with the SibyllineOracles and other earlier works, in 1976, J.T. Milik dated the Book of Parables...
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with the lack of a Temple. This text goes along with Jeremiah and SibyllineOracles 4 to express a minority tradition within Jewish literature. In the...
and finally "eastern messianic" views similar to those found in the SibyllineOracles, a collection of supposed oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters...
17:12), the eight thousandth year represents the end (2 Enoch 33; SibyllineOracles 1.280-81) Twelve. Reflects the 12 lunar months in a lunar year and...
hesitate to send delegations to different oracles over the same issue, so that they could compare answers. Oracles that prophesied most successfully became...
the Book of Enoch, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and the SibyllineOracles. Finally, Isaiah's journey through the Seven Heavens parallels that...
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