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	Sibylline oracles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The surviving Sibylline Oracles are not the famous Sibylline Books of Roman history, which were lost not once, but twice, and thus there is very little knowledge of the actual contents.
		Book VIII offers peculiar difficulties; the first 216 verses are most likely the work of a second century Jew, while the latter part (verses 217-500) beginning with an acrostic on the symbolical Christian word Icthus is undoubtedly Christian, and dates most probably from the third century.
		Book XI might have been written either by a Christian or a Jew in the third century, and Book XIV of the same doubtful provenance dates from the fourth century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sibylline_oracles (976 words)

	Sibylline Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sibylline Books or Sibyllae were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameters, purchased from a sibyl by the semi-legendary last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, and consulted at momentous crises through the history of the Republic and the Empire.
		The Sibylline Books should not be confused with the so-called Sibylline Oracles, twelve books of pretended prophesies, written after the fact, or Vaticinia ex eventu (compare additions to the Book of Daniel); they are, nevertheless, a mine of cultural information.
		Thus one important effect of the Sibylline Books was their influence on applying Greek cult practice and Greek conceptions of deities to indigenous Roman religion, which was already indirectly influenced through Etruscan religion.
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	Sibylline Books -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The story of the acquisition of the Sibylline Books by the semi-legendary last king of Rome, (According to legend, the seventh and last Etruscan king of Rome who was expelled for his cruelty (reigned from 534 to 510 BC)) Tarquinius Superbus, is one of the famous mythic elements of Roman history.
		The Sibylline Books were entrusted to the care of two (A person of refined upbringing and manners) patricians; after 367 BC ten custodians were appointed, five patricians and five (One of the common people) plebeians; subsequently (probably in the time of (Roman general and dictator (138-78 BC)) Sulla) their number was increased to fifteen.
		Thus one important effect of the Sibylline Books was their influence on applying Greek cult practice and Greek conceptions of deities to indigenous Roman religion,which was already indirectly influenced through (A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria; the Etruscans influenced the Romans (who had suppressed them by about 200 BC)) Etruscan religion.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Si/Sibylline_Books.htm (794 words)

	Sibylline books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The story of the acquisition of the Sibylline Books by the semi-legendary last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus is one of the famous mythic elements of Romanhistory.
		The Sibylline Books were entrusted to the care of two patricians ; after 367B.C. ten custodians were appointed, five patricians and five plebeians; subsequently (probably in the time of Sulla) their number was increased to fifteen.
		As the Sibylline books had been collected in Anatolia, in theneighborhood of Troy, they recognized the goddesses and gods and the rites observed thereand helped introduce them into Roman State worship, a syncretic amalgamation of national deities with the corresponding deitiesof Greece, and a general modification of the Roman religion.
	www.therfcc.org /sibylline-books-149178.html (709 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - SIBYL: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For the sibylline prophecies were intended primarily for the pagans, although the intention was rather to convict them of sin and to glorify Judaism by contrast with them than to convert them.
		When the prologue to the Sibyllines was written, in the fifth or sixth century, by a Byzantine author, they had been cast into almost their final form, although they were then somewhat shorter.
		The majority of the quotations from the Sibylline Books found in patristic literature are taken from the third book.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=680&letter=S (3727 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sibylline Oracles
		Book IV is generally considered to embody the oldest portions of the oracles, and while many of the older critics saw in it elements which were considered to be Christian, it is now looked on as completely Jewish.
		Books VI and VII are admittedly of Christian origin.
		Books I and II are regarded as a Christian revision of a Jewish original.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13770a.htm (991 words)

	Sibylline Oracles 3-5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The manuscripts are divided into 2 collections, the first referred to as _Phi_ and _Psi_ containing books 1-8 and dating from the 5th century CE, and the second _Omega_ containing books 9-14, from the 3rd or 4th centuries CE.
		Sibylline Oracle 5 - Like book 3, this is of Egyptian Jewish origin and seems to continue the tradition that was begun in book 3.
		The Jewish Sibylline Oracles seem to have built upon pagan oracles because in the ancient world the sibyl was used for religious and political propaganda.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~www_sd/sibor3-5.html (440 words)

	SIBYLLINE ORACLES - LoveToKnow Article on SIBYLLINE ORACLES
		The fact that they copied the form in which the heathen revelations were conveyed (Greek hexameter verses) and the Homeric language is evidence of a degree of external Hellenization, which is an important fact in the history of post-exilic Judaism.
		The extant fragments and conglomerations of the Sibylline oracles, heathen, Jewish and Christian, were collected, examined, translated and explained by C. Alexandre in a monumental edition full of exemplary learning and acumen.
		The remaining books appeal to be Christian (some heretical) and to belong to the 2nd and 3rd centuries.
	89.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SI/SIBYLLINE_ORACLES.htm (444 words)

	SIBYLS - LoveToKnow Article on SIBYLS
		These officials, at the command of the senate, consulted the Sibylline books in order to discover, not exact predictions of definite future events, but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities (pestilence, earthquake) and to expiate prodigies in cases where the national deities were unable, or unwilling, to help.
		An important effect of these books was the grecizing of Roman religion by the introduction of foreign deities and rites (worshipped and practised in the Troad) and the amalgamation of national Italian deities with the corresponding Greek ones (fully discussed in J. Marquardt, Siaatsverwaltung, iii., 1885, pp.
		According to the researches of R. Klausen (Aeneas und die Penaten, 1839), the oldest collection of Sibylline oracles appears to have been made about the time of Solon and Cyrus at Gergis on Mount Ida in the Troad; it was attributed to the Hellespontine Sibyl and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SI/SIBYLS.htm (586 words)

	The Sibylline books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Sibylline Books (also called The Books of Fate) were consulted in times of dire need to provide a solution to whatever dilemma confronted the Romans.
		The measures that the Sibylline Books required to restore the peace of the gods (pax deorum) usually involved the acceptance of a foreign cult, building of a new temple, and the creation of a new festival.
		A good example of the influence of the Sibylline Books were the events of 293-291 B.C.E. The Sibylline Books were consulted because of a plague in Rome.
	www.uiowa.edu /~classics/green/Roman%20Religion/The_Sibylline_books.html (740 words)

	Northvegr - Rydberg's Teutonic Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Then the Sibylline books were produced by the properly-appointed persons, and in some line or passage they found which divinity was angry and ought to be propitiated.
		This done, they published their interpretation of the passage, but did not make known the words or phrases of the passage, for the text of the Sibylline books must not be known to the public.
		On the other hand, it is absolutely certain that they referred to gods and to a worship which in the main were unknown to the Romans before the Sibylline books were introduced there, and that to these books must chiefly be attributed the remarkable change which took place in Roman mythology during the republican centuries.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/rydberg/012.php (3446 words)

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		The existing Sibylline books, having passed through the hands of Jewish and Christian editors, naturally retain no traces of such ritual injunctions as it was the business of the Quindecimvirs to discover.3 Indeed it appears that even in the Roman books the expected answers were by no means found lying on the surface.
		The book closes, Sog-end, with a brief but involved epilogue, in which the Sibyl identifies herself with the Babylonian and the alleged Erythraean, and claims to be the daughter-in-law of Noah.
		The book was written (apart from 1-51) after the death of Titus (411-413) but at a time when the legend of his sudden extinction had already found acceptance ; and it exhibits the Nero-legend in a developed form, with wilder features than those found in Book" IV.
	djvued.libs.uga.edu /text/sibtxt.txt (8897 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.05.25
		The book begins with the annalistic tradition on the Sibylline books and finishes with a conclusion on the reliability of ancient historiography.
		He suggests that the books reached Rome some time between 300 and 250 BCE and that the story that they derived from the period of the late kings was an invention.
		The traditional character of the books was mixed with the Sibylline tradition, and, when the original collection was destroyed in a fire, embassies were sent to locations with a strong Sibylline tradition, such as Erythrai, to reintroduce the content of the books.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-05-25.html (2660 words)

	sibylline oracles
		In Honour of Messalinus, elected Guardian of the Sibylline Oracles by Tibullus...
		Sibylline Oracles is the name given to a particular collections of prophecies, emanating from the sibyls or divinely inspired seeresses, which were widely circulated in antiquity.
		SIBYLLINE ORACLES, a collection of Apocalyptic writings, composed in imitation of the heathen Sibylline books (see SIBYLS) by the Jews and, later, by the Christians in their efforts to win the heathen world to their faith.
	www.trainingdirectory-in-1.com /oracle/sibylline-oracles.htm (612 words)

	Introduction
		Because six books were destroyed, there could be no consensus among the Romans on interpreting the three surviving books.
		Despite sifting through the Sibylline ashes, they were unable to find the threads of meaning that could turn disconnected prophecies into a coherent view of the future.
		Unlike the Sibylline Books, this survey does not claim to predict or illustrate all possible wars that America might face between now and the year 2025.
	www.ndu.edu /inss/McNair/mcnair63/63Intro.html (1557 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 584 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The use of these oracles was from the outset reserved for the State, and they were not consulted for the foretelling of future events, but on the occasion of remarkable calamities, such as pestilence, earthquake, and as a means of expiating portents.
		It was only the rites of expiation prescribed by the Sibylline books that were communicated to the public, and not the oracles themselves.
		Tarquinius is said to have entrusted the care of the books to a special college of two men of patrician rank.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0587.html (659 words)

	Sibylline Oracles -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Sibylline Oracles is a collection of oracles in Greek verse containing pagan, Jewish, and Christian material from various periods.
		It comprised 15 books (books IX, X, and XV are lost), of which 4,240 verses are extant.
		Tradition represented her as a woman of prodigious old age uttering predictions in ecstatic frenzy, but she was always a figure of the mythical past, and her prophecies, in Greek hexameters, were handed down in writing.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067614?&query=sibylline (734 words)

	Mystic Eye Prophecy Information!
		Books that are reputedly their own writings, instead of reports about them, appear in the Bible.
		According to one of the legends, a collection of prophecies predicting the destiny of the Roman state, the Sibylline Books, was offered for sale to Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome, by the Cumaean sibyl, in the 6th century BC.
		The books were thereafter kept in the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill, to be consulted only in emergencies.
	www.themysticeye.com /info/prophecy.htm (1670 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.01.11
		A neutral survey of the book seems a useful place to start: chapter one is a generally effective location of the argument, with a good balance of obvious but necessary background and context.
		His third chapter is a study of the Sibylline Books: their origins, their general role and, more specifically, their connection with the founding of new temples.
		There are further repeated examples where we are left unnecessarily with an image of incompetence or incoherence: the decision on whether to consult the Books during plagues (88f) is rather muddled though the evidence is perfectly consistent with the statements of Livy and Dionysius that the Books were consulted in particularly difficult situations.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1999/1999-01-11.html (1594 words)

	Sibylline Books: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Sibylline Books
		From that time on they were consulted by the senate on critical occasions until they were destroyed in the burning of the temple of Jupiter; but they were replaced by other sibylline books collected at different times and from various places.
		The Sibylline Oracles or Books were consulted on every occasion of important crisis which confronted the Roman State, and it would appear from existing records that when so consulted, the results following always accrued to the benefit and prosperity of the government and people.
		Sibylline Books is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Sibylline_Books/id/137888 (555 words)

	Chapter Shot Window <i>to</i> Sibylline Leaves of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		Sibylline Books The three surviving books of the Sibyl Amalthæa were preserved in a stone chest underground in the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, and committed to the charge of custodians chosen in the same manner as the high priests.
		The books were destroyed by fire when the Capitol was burnt (A.D. Sibylline Books.
		Sibylline Leaves The Sibylline prophecies were written in Greek, upon palm-leaves.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1184/24218/3.html (163 words)

	Pseudepigrapha: An account of certain apocryphal sacred writings of the Jews and early Christians (viii.i)
		The seventh book, which from internal considerations is rightly considered to be the work of the same author as the preceding, is of conglomerate character, and returns to the usual form of Sibyllines, consisting, that is, of predictions concerning various nations, interspersed with certain mystic and theological statements.
		The next portion of this book is a hymn in praise of God the Father and God the Son, and cannot be regarded as an oracle; it is probably of the same authorship as the former parts, and its date is the same, or a little later.
		The contents of the book are briefly these: After the dispersion of the Jews there shall ensue a general corruption in the world, and tumults and wars, in the course of which Rome shall be overthrown and idolatry abolished; then shall good men have opportunity of showing their virtues and triumphing over evil.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/deane/pseudepig.viii.i.html (14289 words)

	Are You Introverted and Intuitive? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The story of the Sybilline books concerns an ancient city - it doesn't matter where it was or what it was called [yes it does, it was Rome] - it was a thriving, prosperous city set in the middle of a large plain.
		She said that the books contained all the knowledge and all the wisdom of the world, and that she would let the city have all twelve of them in return for a single sack of gold.
		She built a small bonfire, burnt six of the books of all knowledge and all wisdom in the sight of the people of the city and then went on her way.
	www.theintrovertzcoach.com /2004/12/story-of-sibylline-books-i-just-love.html (1235 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sibylline books
		Vaticinium ex eventu (Prophecy from the event) is a technical theological or historiographical term referring to a prophecy written after the author already had information about the events he was foretelling.
		Arianism was a Christological view held by followers of Arius in the early Christian Church, claiming that Jesus Christ and God the Father were not always contemporary, seeing the Son as a divine being, created by the Father (and consequently inferior to Him) at some point in time, before which...
		His chief work was the Olympiads, an historical compendium in sixteen books, from the 1st down to the 229th Olympiad (776 BC to AD 137), of which several chapters are...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sibylline-books (2303 words)

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