Listen to the Sibyl”: The History, Poetics, and Reception of Sibylline Oracles. Brill, February 2026.For almost 1,000 years, Jewish and Christian writers crafted Greek poetic oracles and attributed them to an ancient prophet, a sibyl. From the second century BCE to the seventh century CE, Sibylline Oracles became a space in which these writers interpreted their scriptures, commented on contemporary political and economic events, worked out their theologies, claimed their place within Homeric and Hesiodic literary traditions, transformed Greek mythology, composed hymns, and reflected on the nature of time itself. And all of this was conveyed through the powerful, long-lasting voice of a woman.
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