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‘Listen to the Sibyl’

The History, Poetics, and Reception of the Sibylline Oracles

Series:  Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume: 223
Cover ‘Listen to the Sibyl’
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9789004754928
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Print Publication Date:
25 Feb 2026
  • Subjects
    • Ancient Near East and Egypt
      • Egyptology
    • Classical Studies
      • Greek & Latin Literature
    • Jewish Studies
      • General
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
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Introduction ‘Listen to the Sibyl’: the History, Poetics, and Reception of the Sibylline Oracles
Part 1 The Sibyl in History/The Image of the Sibyl
Chapter 1 Why Did Jews Write in the Name of the Sibyl?
Chapter 2 The Sibyl, Cassandra, and Rome
Chapter 3 Sibylline Personalities and the Sibylline Audience
Chapter 4 The Sibylline Library from Myth to History
Chapter 5 Weaving An Ever More Intricate Tapestry: Recentering the Sibyl from the Margins
Part 2 The Sibyl between Cultures
Chapter 6 The Third Sibylline Oracle 604–623 and Coeval Egyptian Predictions Surrounding the Sixth Syrian War
Chapter 7 Libri fatales: the Sibylline Books in the Late Republic and Early Principate
Chapter 8 Some Shall Say in Hellas That I Am of Foreign Land: Exotic Prophecy in Sibylline Discourse
Chapter 9 Process, Not Parting: Sibylline Oracles and the “Parting of the Ways”
Part 3.1 The Poetics of Sibylline Verse
Chapter 10 What Is Truth?
Chapter 11 Listening to Divine Speech: Does Sibylline Oracles 5 Invite Revelatory Inquiry?
Chapter 12 The Aesthetics and Politics of the Counter-Factual: the Religious Syntax of the Sibylline Oracles
Part 3.2 The Poetics of the Sibylline Universe
Chapter 13 Mapping Eschatology: Jerusalem in Time and Space in the Sibylline Oracles
Chapter 14 Cosmic Discourses in Disorder: Astral Turns in Sibylline Oracles 5
Chapter 15 Language and Letters in Sibylline Oracles 11
Part 4 Sibylline Afterlives
Chapter 16 Sibylline Metamorphoses: Books and Oracles to Describe the History of the World
Chapter 17 The Sibyl Versus Apollo: the New Christian Prophets in the Patristic Authors
Chapter 18 The Post-Classical Sibylline Literature, Forms and Functions: a Preliminary Overview
Chapter 19 The Sibylline Collection in Byzantium: a Many-Faced Sibyl?
Chapter 20 The Defense of the Sibyls and the Sibylline Oracles in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England
Back Matter
Index of Ancient Texts
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects

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