Introduction: 'Listen to the Sibyl': the History, Poetics, and Reception of the Sibylline Oracles Olivia Stewart Lester and Max Leventhal, with Hindy Najman, Joshua Scott, and Elizabeth Stell Part 1 The Sibyl in History/The Image of the Sibyl1 Why Did Jews Write in the Name of the Sibyl? John J. Collins 2 The Sibyl, Cassandra, and Rome Erich S. Gruen 3 Sibylline Personalities and the Sibylline Audience David S. Potter 4 The Sibylline Library from Myth to History Francis Borchardt 5 Weaving An Ever More Intricate Tapestry: Recentering the Sibyl from the Margins Ashley L. Bacchi Part 2 The Sibyl between Cultures6 The Third Sibylline Oracle 604-623 and Coeval Egyptian Predictions Surrounding the Sixth Syrian War Luke Neubert 7 Libri fatales: the Sibylline Books in the Late Republic and Early Principate Stefan Krauter 8 Some Shall Say in Hellas That I Am of Foreign Land: Exotic Prophecy in Sibylline Discourse Daniel Charles Smith 9 Process, Not Parting: Sibylline Oracles and the "Parting of the Ways" Olivia Stewart Lester Part 3.1 The Poetics of Sibylline Verse10 What Is Truth? Jane L. Lightfoot 11 Listening to Divine Speech: Does Sibylline Oracles 5 Invite Revelatory Inquiry? Robert G. Hall 12 The Aesthetics and Politics of the Counter-Factual: the Religious Syntax of the Sibylline Oracles Simon Goldhill Part 3.
2 The Poetics of the Sibylline Universe13 Mapping Eschatology: Jerusalem in Time and Space in the Sibylline Oracles Oliver Parkes 14 Cosmic Discourses in Disorder: Astral Turns in Sibylline Oracles 5 Helen Van Noorden 15 Language and Letters in Sibylline Oracles 11 Max Leventhal Part 4 Sibylline Afterlives16 Sibylline Metamorphoses: Books and Oracles to Describe the History of the World Mariangela Monaca 17 The Sibyl Versus Apollo: the New Christian Prophets in the Patristic Authors Jesús M. Nieto Ibáñez 18 The Post-Classical Sibylline Literature, Forms and Functions: a Preliminary Overview Lorenzo DiTommaso 19 The Sibylline Collection in Byzantium: a Many-Faced Sibyl? Xavier Lafontaine 20 The Defense of the Sibyls and the Sibylline Oracles in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England Jean-Michel Roessli Index of Ancient Texts Index of Modern Authors Index of Subjects.