Oniad Sibyl

How a Greek Prophetess Became a Revolutionary Mouthpiece for Egyptian Jews

AvMiguel Vargas

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del 29 i serien Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha

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The Oniad community was a mercenary and priestly Jewish settlement in Greco-Roman Egypt. This community recognized an exiled high priest of the Jerusalem Temple as its founder and met its end after a Mediterranean-wide uprising that shook the foundations of the Roman Empire. This monograph attributes a group of rather puzzling prophetic narratives—filled with coded language, reused lines from Greek and Jewish literature, and confused historical references—to the Oniads. The thesis of this study is that each prophetic treatise responds to crises experienced by the Oniad settlement and, as a result, evidences its unfolding historical consciousness and hybrid literary culture in distinct phases of its existence.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-03-14
Mått:155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt:472 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha
Antal sidor:196
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004722668

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Miguel M. Vargas, Ph.D. (2022), is a historian of ancient Mediterranean Jewish communities and Greco-Roman religions. His current projects focus on notions of prophecy in blended communities and interactions between ancient Jews and pagans, with an emphasis on cultural contact, exchange, and conflict.

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ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations1 A Jewish Sibyl and the Oniads of Egypt1 Introduction2 The Oracula Sibyllina3 The Oniad Community4 Research on the Oracula Sibyllina and the Study of Ancient Judaism5 Egyptian Judaism(s)?2 Oracular Divination in the Ancient Mediterranean1 Introduction2 Temples, Priests, and Cult3 Crisis4 Characteristics of Literary Oracles5 History, Crisis, and Minor Literature3 Oracula Sibyllina 31 Introduction2 Structure of Oracula Sibyllina 33 Compositional History4 CPJ 4.6145 Oracula Sibyllina 3 as a Response to Crisis4 Oracula Sibyllina 41 Introduction2 Compositional History3 Crisis in Oracula Sibyllina 44 The Fourth Sibyl’s Historical Consciousness5 The Provenance of Oracula Sibyllina 45 Oracula Sibyllina 51 Introducing the Text2 Composition and Dating3 Crisis in Oracula Sibyllina 54 Provenance of Oracula Sibyllina 55 The Fifth Sibyl’s Historical Consciousness6 The Oniad Sibyl1 Toward an Oniad Sibyl2 Oniad LiteratureConclusionBibliographyIndex