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Sibylline Oracles

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Sibylline Oracles. A collection of oracles imitating the pagan ‘Sibylline Books’. The oracles, written in hexameters, are preceded by a prose prologue affirming that they are utterances of Greek Sibyls of various periods. Their genuineness was accepted by many of the Fathers, who drew from them arguments in defence of Christianity. Modern critics assign them to Jewish and Christian authors; for, though genuine Greek oracles are inserted in some places, the tendency of the whole is monotheistic and Messianic. The dates of the Jewish portions range from the Maccabean period to the time of the Emp. Hadrian (117–38); the Christian additions seem to date from the 2nd cent. onwards.

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