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The Oniad Sibyl: How a Greek Prophetess Became a Revolutionary Mouthpiece for Egyptian Jews

The Oniad Sibyl: How a Greek Prophetess Became a Revolutionary Mouthpiece for Egyptian Jews

Vargas, Miguel

Hardcover

Series: Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha, Book 29

JudaismAncient History GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004722661
ISBN13: 9789004722668
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 14 2025
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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puzzling prophetic narratives--filled with coded language, reused lines from Greek and Jewish literature, and confused historical references--to the Oniads.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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