Sibylline Oracles
Teaching poetry. Fourteen books and eight fragments survive. Mixed patterns of verbal forms using Greek, Jewish, Gnostic, and early Christian speeches, with scattered genres including apocalyptic passages, legend, acrostic expressions, and employing motifs from various European, African, and Asian literary masterpieces. Ethnic groups represented include Persian, Libyan, Delphic, Cimmerian, Erythrean, Samian, Cumean, Hellospontian, Phrygian, and Tiburtine, with later writings representing Hebrew, Chaldean, and Egyptian sybils.
Earliest material: Book 3, considered the earliest part, was likely written by a Jewish author in Egypt during the 2nd century BC.
Expansion: Jewish writers in Alexandria began creating verses in the same form as pagan oracles, and this practice was continued by Christians who also wrote their own sections and revised existing Jewish texts.
Later additions: The collection continued to be developed and expanded by Christian authors until approximately the 7th century AD.
Title - Thesis | Scroll | Short Description | Synthesis 2nd Temple | Antithesis | Synthesis Apostolic | Synthesis Amoraim | Continent Origin | Southern Worldview | Northern Worldview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sibylline Oracles | Scroll 57.1 | Greek & Jewish oracles | Spurious | Oracula Sibyllina | pseudo-Sibylline collections | NA | Asia | Oracles | Prophecies |
Category Reference Guide
Title/Thesis - The name of the book in American English
Synthesis 2nd Temple - The name of the book in order of its presentation other than the Apostles, ranging from 2nd temple Judaism up to the 1st century
Antithesis - The name of the book in another language
Synthesis Apostolic - The identity of the book in order of its presentation according to Tradition in the church after the 3rd century
Synthesis Amoraim - The name of the book in order of its presentation other than the Apostles, ranging from Tannaim up to the 5th century
Continent Origin - Continent from where the Text Type Source comes from
Southern Worldview - Catalog strategy for storing the scrolls include the interpretation. South means Africa or Egypt (Alexandrian) such as LXX. South of Palestine.
Northern Worldview - Catalog strategy for storing the scrolls include the interpretation. North means Asia or Persia (Babylonian) such as Masoretic. North of Palestine.
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