Sibylline Oracles (Jewish core)

Sibyllina Logia

Anonymous (multiple authors writing pseudonymously in the voice of the pagan prophetess Sibyl) · Book 3, the oldest and most clearly Jewish material, dated c. 150-100 BC; later books in the same collection (1-2, 6-8) are Christian additions outside this Jewish core · Alexandria (Egypt) · poetry

Jewish authors in Alexandria adopted the pagan Greco-Roman genre of oracular Sibylline prophecy to promote monotheism and predict the downfall of Gentile empires, disguising Jewish theology in the voice of a legendary pagan prophetess for a Greek-reading audience.