Sibylline Oracles

A collection of Jewish and Christian writings, composed between the 2nd century BCE and the 4th century CE, attributed to the pagan Sibyls.|||Preserved and abundantly edited by Christians. Fourteen books and eight fragments survive in an edition of the 6th or 7th century AD. The extant collection includes books III–V (Jewish) and I–II, VI–VIII (Christian).|||The authors of the present collection lived between the 2nd century BCE and the 5th century CE. Book III, about 140 BCE, is the oldest Jewish portion.|||Not canonical in any tradition.|||Jewish and Christian oracles attributed to the pagan Sibyls. Cover the history of the world, the coming of the Messiah, and the judgment of God.|||Charlesworth, J. H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1. Doubleday, 1983.|||Collins, J. J. " Sibylline Oracles." In OTP 1:317–472.|||Buitenwerf, R. Book III of the Sibylline Oracles. Brill, 2003.|||Sibylline Oracles — Sacred Texts|https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sib/|Full public-domain translation.;; Sibylline Oracles — Wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibylline_Oracles|Background and scholarly discussion.|||" And the Sibyl said: God is one, alone, and there is no other." — Sibylline Oracles (paraphrase)