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Sibylline sayings.
; * As diviners searched for a Rosetta stone to interpret Alan the Inscrutable's Humphrey-Hawkins report to the House Banking Committee, at least part of the market knew what to do: Soar 121 points. That was, of course, the Nasdaq composite, which closed above 4500 for the first time, while the other
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The Omphalos and the Cross: Pagans and Christians in Search of a Divine Center.(Book Review)
; ...evolutionary narrative of their historic encounter. Especially strong are discussions of Delphic (chap. 4) and Sibylline (chap. 5) oracles as these emerged and were modified or reinterpreted with the passage of time and the change of dominant religiousness...
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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GORE ALAN TAYLOR TALKS TO A LITERARY LEGEND
; ...like consulting one of the all-seeing, all-knowing, ancient oracles. His voice - velvety, imperious, with the melancholy timbre...print media have ignored it. "The New York Times maintains a sibylline silence as it tends to do when proofs of electoral wrongdoing...
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Breakfast with the Cumaean Sibyl, or a poet's education
; ...should have been it for the oracles, but the emperor Augustus...corners of his empire. These Sibylline Oracles were known to the Greek and...it was determined that the Oracles were not uttered by the Cumaean Sibyl or any of her sister oracles but written by Jews and Christians...
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Lara, Jaime: City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain.(Book Review)
; ...raised chapels and altars. Chapter 2 discusses European eschatological beliefs, particularly the prophecies of the Sibylline oracles, the Psychomachia of the Spanish poet Prudentius, and the writings of twelfth-century prophet Joachim of Fiore...
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Pope's 'Dunciad.' (Alexander Pope)
; ...1734) and Daniel (in 1734). His Vindication of the Sibylline Oracles (1715) is dedicated to Richard Bentley, chief combatant...in this Important Point [of the antiquity of the Sibylline Oracles]. Whiston's works typically verify religious truths...
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Till Jesus Comes: Origins of Christian Apocalyptic Expectation
; ...they are living on the cusp of the end time. In the chapters "Apocalyptic Ideas in Other Early Writings" (Jubilees, Sibylline Oracles, Psalms of Solomon, various Qumran scrolls, and the Testament of Moses) and "Later Jewish Apocalypses" (4 Ezra...
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A classic Derby
; ...its ambiguous message, the Derby bettor in search of signs and portents runs the risk of reading the wrong meaning into the sibylline babble about Arkansas. For there is another steed with biographical ties to the homeland of the First Family. His name is...
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Why the deficit is a godsend: and five other economic heresies.
; ...that serve as the Delphic temples for our rather colorless oracles, the economists. The ancient Romans used to send for the augurs...rows of figures before White House correspondents, uttering sibylline predictions of weal or woe into the clip-on microphones provided...
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Fiddling was his talent Peter Jones enjoys a Life of Nero that presents him as artist, showman, aesthete and PR man
; ...were reported in the East. A hotch-potch of poems composed between the second and seventh centuries AD, called The Sibylline Oracles, presented Nero as a champion of the East and of the oppressed against the tyranny of Rome. Nero, then, became in...
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