Sibylline Oracles

Auteur: Lightfoot, J. L. (Fellow and Tutor in Classics, New College, Oxford)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
The Sibyl was a legendary figure in Greco-Roman antiquity. J. L. Lightfoot describes how the verse prophecies attributed to her were taken over by Hellenistic Jews, and later by Christians, as a vehicle for their own understandings of prophecy, and provides an edition, translation, and commentary on the first and second books of extant oracles.
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The Sibyl was a legendary figure in Greco-Roman antiquity. J. L. Lightfoot describes how the verse prophecies attributed to her were taken over by Hellenistic Jews, and later by Christians, as a vehicle for their own understandings of prophecy, and provides an edition, translation, and commentary on the first and second books of extant oracles.
ISBN / EAN 9780199215461
Auteur Lightfoot, J. L. (Fellow and Tutor in Classics, New College, Oxford)
Editeur Oxford University Press