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Sibylline Oracles

Sibylline Oracles — Lanchester 1913 selection, OCR

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THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES § 9. BIBLIOGRAPHY. (a) CHIEF EDITIONS OF THE TEXT. Betuleius, Xystus, Stby//inorum Oraculorum Libri Octo, Basel, 1545. Opsopoeus, Joh., Σιβυλλιακοὶ Χρησμοί, Paris, 1599. Gallaeus Servatius, Σιβυλλιακοὶ Xpnopoi, Amsterdam, 1687-9. Mai, Angelo, Σιβύλλης Λόγοι ιδ', Milan, 1817. Alexandre, C., Χρησμοὶ Σιβυλλιακοί, Paris, 1841, 1853. Friedlieb, J. H., Χρησμοὶ Σιβυλλιακοί, Leipzig, 1852. Rzach, Aloisius, Χρησμοὶ Σιβυλλιακοί, Vienna, 1891. Geffcken, J., Die Oracula Sibyllina, Leipzig, 1902. (ὁ) CHIEF CRITICAL ENQUIRIES AND EDITIONS. Schwally, ‘ Sibyllae’ in Real-Encyklopidie der klass, Altertumswissenschayt. Thorlacius, B., Libri Stbyllistarum veteris ecclesiae crisi subiecti, Havniae, 1815. Bleek, F., ‘ Ueber die Entstehung und den Zusammenhang der uns in acht Biichern erhaltenen Sammlung sibyllinischer Orakel,’ Theol. Zeitschr., 1819, 1820. Gefrérer, K7itische Geschichte, Stuttgart, 1831. Volkmann, De Oraculis Sibyllinis, Leipzig, 1853. Alexandre, Excursus ad Sibyllina, Paris, 1858. Ewald, H., Abhandlung iiber Entstehung, Inhalt und Werth der sibyllinischen Biicher, Gottingen, 1858. Klausen, R. H., 4neas und die Penaten, Gottingen, 1858. Reuss, ‘ Les Sibylles chrétiennes,’ Nouvelle Revue, 1861. Badt, B., Ursprung ... und Text des 4. Buches der stbyllinischen Orakel, Breslau, 1878. Hilgenfeld, Jzdische A pokalyptik, Jena, 1857. 9 ‘Die jiidische Apokalyptik und die neuesten Forschungen,’ Zeztschr. der wiss. Theologie, 1860. > ‘ Die jiidischen Sibyllen und der Essenismus,’ Z.W.T7., 1871. Larocque, J., ‘Sur la date du troisiéme livre des oracles sibyllins,’ Revue Archéologigue, 1869. Hildebrandt, ‘ Das rémische Antichristentum zur Zeit der Offenbarung Johannis und des V. sibyllinischen Buches,’ Z.W.T., 5. 57-95, 1874. ae ian tae Ὰ Zahn, T., ‘ Ueber Ursprung und religidsen Character der sibyllinischen Biicher iv, v,’ Zeitschr. fiir kirchl. Wiss. und kirchl. Leben, 1886. Diels, K., Stbyliinische Blatter, Berlin, 1890. Fehr, E., Studia in Oracula Sibyllina, Upsala, 1893. Geffcken, J., ‘ Komposition und Entstehungszeit der Oracula Sibyllina, Texte 1ε. Untersuchungen, 1502. The literature which touches on the Sibylline Books is a very large one, and only a selection has been given above. A fuller Bibliography (up to 1900) will be found in Terry’s translation. Of the works mentioned Alexandre’s Excursus ad Sibyllina is a mine of information upon which the present writer has drawn freely. Friedlieb’s edition, with its spirited translation into German hexameters, contains many useful suggestions. Rzach’s text is furnished with a good apparatus criticus, but it is on the whole inferior to Geffcken’s which forms the basis of the present translation. Schiirer has some serviceable remarks in his History of the Jewish People (English translation, Edinburgh, 1886), and sidelights may be gleaned from various books on Jewish History and Eschatology, notably R. H. Charles, Eschatology ; Bousset, Religion der Juden im N.T. Zeitalter; and Volz, Jiidische Apokalyptik. (c) TRANSLATIONS. : The following are noted in the very full Bibliography in 716 Siby/line Oracles translated from the Greek into English Blank Verse of M. S. Terry. f (a) English. J. Floyer, Ze Sibylline Oracles, translated from the best Greek copies and compared with the sacred prophecies, especially with David and the Revelation, and with as much history as plainly shows that many of the Sibyl’s predictions are exactly fulfilled. With answers to objections made against them, London, 1731. Terry, M. S., of. cit., New York, 1890. (6) French. Champier, S., Oracles de la Sibylle, tracduits par Simphorien Champier et Jean Robertet, 1702, 1703. Bouché-Leclerq, in Revue de U’histotire des religions, vols. Vii, viii, ix. (c) German. Nahrung, J. C., Meun Biicher sibyllinischer Prophezeiungen aus der griechischen in die deutsche Sprache lbersetzt, Halle, 1819. : Ὁ _ Friedlieb, J. H., Die szbyllinischen Weissagungen vollstindig gesammelt, nach neuer Handschriften-Ver- gleichung, mit kritischem Commentare und metrischer deutscher Uebersetzung, Leipzig, 1852. Blass, F., ‘ Die sibyllinischen Orakel’ (in Afokr. u. Pseudep. des Alten Testaments), Tubingen, 1900. (4) Italian. Antolini, V., Oraculd Sibilini tradotti dal Greco in versi Italiani, Viterbo, 1775. (e) Latin. Castalio, S., Sébyl/ind Oracula de Graeco in Latinum conversa et in cadem annotationes, Basel, 1546. Mai, Angelo, as above, Milan, 1817, 1828. (7) Spanish. Poreno, Baltasar, Ordculos de las doze Sibilas. Profetisas de Christo nuestro Sefior entre los Gentiles, Cuenca, 1621.- 376

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Recorded completeness: Complete identified source-section printed pages 368–406, including historical introduction and apparatus. This is the selection of oracles, fragments and apparatus actually included by Lanchester in the 1913 volume; it is not a claim of the entire Sibylline tradition. Reader navigation uses printed scan pages, not reconstructed historical chapters. Uncorrected upstream OCR can contain spelling, glyph, line-order and numeric errors; consult retained scan for exact readings.. Available reading sections are listed below.

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