Sibylline Oracles

Oracula Sibyllina

Standard abbreviation: Sib. Or.

Other titles: none

Clavis numbers: ECCA 688; CANT 319; CAVT 274

VIAF: 174917145

Category: Apocalypses

Related literature: Tiburtine Sibyl

Compiled by Olivia Stewart Lester, Loyola University Chicago

Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style): Stewart Lester, Olivia. “Sibylline Oracles.” e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR. https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/sibylline-oracles/.

Created January 2020. Current as of January 2024.

1. SUMMARY

The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of pseudepigraphic prophecies written over centuries by Jews and Christians in Greek hexameters and voiced by the figure of a sibyl. The earliest surviving mention of a sibyl is attributed to Heraclitus by Plutarch. The author describes her as mad and cheerless, but for a thousand years, the sibyls have spoken through a god (De Pythiae oraculis, 397A). While initially a sibyl was described as a singular prophetic figure, over time sibyls began to be associated with multiple geographical locations. Aeneas’s famous consultation with the Cumaean sibyl in Aeneid 6 illustrates a sibyl as this kind of localized prophet. Sibyls have been the subject of numerous artistic representations throughout history; most famously, Michelangelo interspersed sibyls with prophets on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

The Roman senate was said to be in possession of books of sibylline prophecies; the senate appointed a group of ten men to guard them and consult them on command. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Gellius narrate an account about how the Romans came to own these books; both tell the story of an old woman who tried to sell books of prophecy to the Roman king Tarquinius. When he did not appreciate their value and refused to meet their price, the women burned portions of the collection and continued to ask the same price for the reduced collection. Eventually the king realized the error of his ways and bought one-third of the books for the woman’s original price (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 4.62.1–5; Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.19). The Roman sibylline books were housed in the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus until they were destroyed by a fire in 83 BCE. According to Dionysius, the sibylline books were then replaced with prophecies from other cities (Antiquitates Romanae 4.62.5–6). Suetonius describes the further destruction of some of the sibylline books under Augustus; in a mass burning of Greek and Latin prophetic texts, Augustus saved only some of the sibylline books, placing them at the temple of Palatine Apollo (Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 31.1).

The Jewish-Christian Sibylline Oracles blend a traditional trope of sibylline prophecies of doom with a Jewish and then Christian innovation of ethical and theological instruction. While several books of the collection bear resemblances to apocalyptic texts—with universal histories, periodizations of time, and descriptions of eschatological judgment—they are not apocalypses. Instead, the Sibylline Oracles are prophecy.

The contents of the collection are deeply composite, both literarily and compositionally. The Sibylline Oracles weave together language and/or characters from texts that become biblical (from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament), Greek mythology, Hesiod, Homer, Pseudo-Phocylides, and other Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts to produce new prophecies. In book 3, the sibyl claims priority over Homer, and yet Homeric idioms occur throughout the sibylline collection. In general, the Sibylline Oracles retell history, indict various nations, deliver ethical instruction, and predict eschatological judgment. Attitudes towards other nations vary across the collection; some passages take up a hospitable posture towards outsiders, imagining a more universal worship of the writers’ god. Other passages envision a violent divine reckoning against other nations, especially the Romans. Some of the sibylline texts envision a complete destruction of the world with fire, sometimes followed by a resurrection from the dead.

With respect to composition, the Jewish-Christian Sibylline Oracles date from approximately the 2nd century BCE to the 7th century CE. Some of the Sibylline Oracles were probably written in Egypt (books 3 and 5), but it is virtually impossible to locate others geographically. Some sibylline books were created by Jewish writers and editors, and other books by Christian writers and editors. The earliest material in the collection—the majority of book 3, written in the 2nd century BCE—is widely understood to be Jewish, as are books 4–5. Of the Christian books in the collection, several appear to have earlier Jewish layers transformed by later Christian writers, such as Books 1–2 and 8. Books 6 and 7 are understood to be Christian. Portions of books 11–14 are debated, but are most widely understood to be Jewish, with Christian interpolations in books 12–13; these latter two books contain oracles about a succession of Roman political leaders, from Augustus to Odenath.

The Sibylline Oracles survive in two major manuscript traditions. The first one contains books numbered 1–8, but subdivides into versions that contain the 6th-century prologue (Class Φ) and versions that do not (Class Ψ); the second contains two books numbered 9 and 10 that reduplicate material in the first tradition, followed by books 11–14 (Class Ω). Modern editions of the Sibylline Oracles thus contain books 1–8, and then 11–14.

Named historical figures and characters: Adam (patriarch), Alexander (the Great)*, Cleopatra*, Cronos, Eve (matrarich), Hadrian*, Homer*, Isis, Jesus Christ, Noah, Nero*, Sibyl, Titans, Virgil*, Watchers.

* = character is alluded to, but not explicitly named

Geographical locations: Asia, Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Erythrae, Ethiopia, Gaul, Greece, Jerusalem, Macedonia, Persia, Rome.

2. RESOURCES

2.1 Web Sites and Other Electronic Resources

“Oracula Sibyllina.” Perseus. Digitized Greek text from Geffcken.

2.2 Iconography

Ten sibyls (Persian, Hellespontine, Erythraean, Phrygian, Samian, Delphic, Libyan, Cumaean, Cumana, Tiburtine), aisle floors of Siena Cathedral, 1482–1483.

Sibyls and prophets on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo, 1508–1512.

“A Sibyl Holding a Scroll (Study for the Cimmerian Sibyl),” drawing by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), 1638, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

3. BIBLIOGRAPHY

3.1 Manuscripts and Editions

3.1.1 Greek

Class Φ

A Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, hist. gr. 96, fols. 1r–61v (15th cent.)

B Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barocci 109, fols. 231r–238v (15th cent.) ~ Pinakes; Bodleian

P Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Monacensis 351 (15th cent.)

S Madrid, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Scorialensis Σ II 7, fols. 285v–324r (15th cent.)

D Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Vallicellianus graecus 46 (16th cent.)

Class Ψ

F Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florentinus Laurentianus plutei XI 17 (15th cent.)

R Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 2851, fols. 1r–72v (15th cent.) ~ Pinakes; Gallica

L Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 2850, fols. 1r–72v (1475)

T Toledo, La Biblioteca del Cabildo de la Santa Iglesia Catedral, Toletanus 80.99.44 (15th cent.)

Class Ω

M Milan, Biblioteca Pinacoteca Accademia Ambrosiana, E 64 sup., fols. 7r–15r (15th cent.) ~ Pinakes

Q Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1120 (14th cent.) ~ Pinakes; DigiVatLib

V Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 743, fols. 57r–90v (14th cent.) ~ Pinakes; DigiVatLib

H Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. graec. 312, fols. 1r–81v (1541) ~ Pinakes; Munich

Z Jerusalem, Patriarchē bibliothēkē, Hagiou Saba 419 (late 14th cent.) ~ LOC

Alexandre, Charles, ed. Oracula Sibyllina: Textu ad codices manuscriptos recognits, cum Castalionis versione metrica innumeris locis emendata. 2 vols. Paris: Firmin Didot fratres, 1841–1856 (based on Betuleius (P), A, B, S, F, R, L, H, M, V; First edition of books 1–8, 11–14). Excursus.

Betuleius, Xystus, ed. Sibyllinorum oraculorum libri octo. Basel, 1545 (based on P; Books 1–8).

Denis, Albert-Marie, O.P., ed. Concordance grecque des pseudépigraphes d’Ancien Testament. Concordance, corpus des textes, indices. Louvain-la-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institute Orientaliste, 1987 (books 3–5).

Friedlieb, J. H., ed. Oracula Sibyllina, ad fidem codd. mscr. quotquot exstant recensuit, praetextis prolegomenis illustravit, versione germanica instruxit, annotationes criticas et rerum indicem. Leipzig: Weigel, 1852.

Gallaeus, Seravatius, ed. Sibyllina oracula. Amsterdam: Boom, 1689 (books 1–8).

Gauger, Jörg-Dieter, ed. Sibyllinische Weissagungen. Sammlung Tusculum. Dusseldorf; Zürich: Artemis & Winkler, 1998 (books 1–8, 11; based on Kurfeß).

Geffcken, Johannes, ed. Die Oracula Sibyllina. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1902 (books 1–8, 11–14).

Kurfeß, Alfons, ed. Sibyllinische Weissagungen: Urtext und Übersetzung. Munich: Heimeran, 1951 (books 1–8, 11).

Lightfoot, J. L., ed. The Sibylline Oracles: With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary on the First and Second Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 (books 1–2).

Mai, Angelo. Sibyllinus Liber XIV. graece ex Ambrosiano codice, cum poetica editoris interpretatione et praevia dissertatione ac notis, accad. Sibyll. Liber XIV et pars VIII, cum multa vocum et versuum varietate. Milan, 1817 (book 14).

Mai, Angelo. “Sibyllae libri XI. XII. XIII. XIIII. ex codicibus Vaticanis editi.” Scriptorum veterum nova collection e Vaticanis codicibus edita III. Rome, 1828 (based on M, Q, and V; books 11–14).

Opsopoeus, Johannes. Sibyllina oracula ex vett. cod. aucta, renovate et notis illustrata a Johanne Opsopoeo Brettano cum interpretatione latine Sebastiani Castalionis et indice. Paris, 1599 (based on R, and two unknown manuscripts; Books 1–8).

Potter, David. Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire: A Historical Commentary on the Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990 (book 13).

Rzach, Aloisius. Oracula Sibyllina. Vindobonae: F. Tempsky; Lipsiae: G. Freytag, 1891 (books 1–8, 11–14).

3.2 Modern Translations

3.2.1 English

Collins, John J., trans. “Sibylline Oracles.” Pages 317–472 in The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Edited by James H. Charlesworth. Volume 1. Garden City: Doubleday, 1983.

Lanchester, H. C. O., trans. “The Sibylline Oracles.” Pages 368–406 in vol. 2 of The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English. Edited by R.H. Charles. Oxford: Clarendon, 1913 (books 3–5).

Lightfoot, J. L., trans. The Sibylline Oracles: With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary on the First and Second Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 (books 1–2).

Potter, David, trans. Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire: A Historical Commentary on the Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Terry, Milton S., trans. The Sibylline Oracles: Translated from the Greek into English Blank Verse. New York: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati: Curts & Jennings, 1899.

Treu, Ursula, trans. Pages 652–84 in vol. 2 of The New Testament Apocrypha. Edited by Edgar Hennecke and Wilhelm Schneemelcher. English translation edited by Robert McLachlan Wilson. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1965 (selections designated “Christian Sibyllines”)

3.2.2 French

Nikiprowetzky, Valentin, trans. La troisième Sibylle. Paris; La Haye: Mouton, 1970 (book 3).

Roessli, Jean-Michel. “Les Oracles sibyllins: Livres 6, 7 et 8 (vv. 217–428).” Pages 1045–83 in vol. 2 of Écrits apocryphes chrétiens. Edited by Pierre Geoltrain and Jean-Daniel Kaestli. Bibliothèque de le Pléiade 516. Paris: Gallimard, 2005 (books 6–8).

3.2.3 German

Friedlieb, J. H. Oracula Sibyllina, ad fidem codd. mscr. quotquot exstant recensuit, praetextis prolegomenis illustravit, versione germanica instruxit, annotationes criticas et rerum indicem. Leipzig: Weigel, 1852.

Kurfeß, Alfons, trans. Sibyllinische Weissagungen: Urtext und Übersetzung. Munich: Heimeran, 1951 (books 1–8, 11).

3.2.4 Italian

Ubigli, Liliana Rosso. “Oracoli Sibillini.” Pages 383–535 in vol. 3 of Apocrifi dell’Antico Testamento. Brescia: Paideia, 1999 (books 3–5).

3.2.5 Latin

Alexandre, Charles, trans. Oracula Sibyllina. 2 vols. Paris: Firmin Didot fratres, 1841–1856.

3.2.6 Spanish

Suárez de la Torre, Emilio, trans. “Oráculos Sibilinos.” Pages 331–618 in vol. 3 of Apócrifos del Antiguo Testamento. 3d edition. Madrid: Ediciones Cristiandad, 2016.

3.3 General Works

Bacchi, Ashley L. Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles. JSJSup 194. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Bartlett, John R. Jews in the Hellenistic World: Josephus, Aristeas, The Sibylline Oracles, Eupolemus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Bouquet, Monique, and Françoise Morzadec, eds. La Sibylle: Parole et représentation. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004.

Brocca, Nicoletta. Lattanzio, Agostino e la Sibylla Maga: Ricerche sulla fortuna degli ‘Oracula Sibyllina’ nell’Occidente latino. Studi e Testi TardoAntichi 11. Roma: Herder editrice e libreria, 2011.

Buitenwerf, Rieuwerd. “Sibylline Oracles 3–5.” T&T Clark Encyclopaedia of Second Temple Judaism. Edited by Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Daniel M. Gurtner. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019.

Buitenwerf, Rieuwerd. Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and Its Social Setting: With an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. SVTP 17. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2003.

Chirassi Colombo, Ileana and Tullio Seppilli, ed. Sibille e Linguaggi Oraccolari: Mito, Storia, Tradizione. Pisa; Rome: Istituti Editoriali E Poligrafici Internazionali, 1998.

Collins, John J. “The Sibyl and the Apocalypses: Generic Relationships in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity.” Pages 108–26 in Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy: On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015.

__________. “Sibylline Discourse.” Pages 251–70 in Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy: On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015.

__________. Seers, Sibyls, and Sages in Hellenistic Judaism. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

__________. “Sibylline Oracles.” Pages 317–472 in The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Volume 1. Edited by James H. Charlesworth. Garden City: Doubleday, 1983.

__________. “The Place of the Fourth Sibyl in the Development of the Jewish Sibyllina.” JJS 25 (1974): 365–80.

__________. The Sibylline Oracles of Egyptian Judaism. SBL Dissertation Series 13. Missoula: Published by Society of Biblical Literature for the Pseudepigrapha Group, 1974.

DiTommaso, Lorenzo. “The Sibylline Oracles.” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. Edited by R. D. Chesnutt. Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019.

__________. A Bibliography of Pseudepigrapha Research 1850–1999. JSPSup 39. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001 (pp. 795–850).

__________. “Sibylline Oracles.” Pages 1226–1227 in The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism. Edited by John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010.

Ehrman, Bart. Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Flusser, David. “The Four Empires in the Fourth Sibyl and in the Book of Daniel.” IOS 2 (1972): 148–75.

Gager, John G. “Some Attempts to Label the ‘Oracula Sibyllina,’ Book 7.” HTR 65.1 (1972): 91–97.

Geffcken, Johannes. Komposition und Entstehungszeit der Oracula Sibyllina. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1902.

Gruen, Erich S. “Sibylline Oracles.” Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

__________. “Nero in the Sibylline Oracles.” Scripta Classica Israelica 33 (2014): 87–98.

__________. Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

__________. “Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Third Sibylline Oracle.” Pages 15–36 in Jews in a Graeco-Roman World. Edited by Martin Goodman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Hirsch, S. A. “The Jewish Sibylline Oracles.” The JQR 2.4 (1890): 406–29.

Hooker, Mischa A. “The Use of Sibyls and Sibylline Oracles in Early Christian Writers.” PhD diss., University of Cincinnati, 2008.

Jones, Kenneth R. Jewish Reactions to the Destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

Kurfeß, Alfons. Sibyllinische Weissagungen. Munich: Heimeren, 1951.

__________. “Oracula Sibyllina I/II.” ZNW 40 (1941): 151–65.

Kusio, Mateusz. “The origin of Beliar in Sibylline Oracle 3.63: A new proposal.” JSP 29.3 (2020): 168–83.

Lightfoot, J. L. The Sibylline Oracles: With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary on the First and Second Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Marshall, Jill E. Women Praying and Prophesying in Corinth: Gender and Inspired Speech in First Corinthians. WUNT II 448. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017.

Momigliano, Arnaldo, and Emilio Suárez De La Torre. “Sibylline Oracles.” Pages 8382–86 in vol. 12 of Encyclopedia of Religion. 2d ed. Edited by Lindsay Jones. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2005.

Momigliano, Arnaldo. “From the Pagan to the Christian Sibyl: Prophecy as History of Religion.” Pages 3–18 in The Uses of Greek and Latin: Historical Essays. Edited by A. C. Dionisotti, Anthony Grafton, and Jill Kraye. London: Warburg Institute, University of London, 1988.

Monaca, Mariangela. La Sibilla a Roma. I Libri Sibillini tra religione e politica. Hierá 8. Cosenza: Lionello Giordano Editore, 2005.

__________. Oracoli Sibillini. Introduzione, traduzione e note. Testi Patristici 199. Roma: Città Nuova 2008.

Moore, Stewart A. Jewish Ethnic Identity and Relations in Hellenistic Egypt. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

Neujahr, Matthew. Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World. BJS 354. Providence: Brown, 2012.

Nieto Ibáñez, Jesús-María. El hexámetro de los Oráculos Sibilinos. Classical and Byzantine Monographs. Amsterdam: A.M. Hakkert, 1992.

Nikiprowetzky, Valentin. “Réflexions sur quelques problèmes du quatrième et du cinquième livre.” HUCA 43 (1972): 29–76.

__________. La troisième Sibylle. Paris; La Haye: Mouton, 1970.

Parke, H. W. Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity. London: Routledge, 1988.

Potter, David S. Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire: A Historical Commentary on the Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Pluci Doria, Luisa Breglia. Oracoli Sibillini tra rituali e propaganda. Naples: Liguori, 1983.

Roessli, Jean-Michel. “Les Oracles sibyllins.” Pages 591–618 in Histoire de la littérature grecque chrétienne des origins à 451. Tome 2: De Paul apôtre à Irénée de Lyon. Edited by Bernard Pouderon and Enrico Norelli. 2d ed. Paris: Le Belles Lettres, 2016.

__________. “The Passion Narrative in the Sibylline Oracles.” Pages 299–327 in Gelitten—Gestorben—Auferstanden. Passions- und Ostertraditionen im antiken Christentum. Edited by Tobias Nicklas, Andreas Merkt, and Joseph Verheyden. WUNT II. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.

__________. “Augustin, les sibylles et les Oracles sibyllins.” Pages 263–86 in Augustinus afer. Saint Augustin: Africanité et universalité. Proceedings of the International Conference, Algier-Annaba, 1–7 April 2001. Edited by Pierre-Yves Fux, Jean-Michel Roessli, and Otto Wermelinger. Fribourg: Éditions Universitaires, 2003.

Rzach, Aloisius. “Sibyllinische Orakel.” Cols. 2103–2183 in Paulys Real-encyclopädie Der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft 2.2. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1921.

Schürer, Emil. “The Sibylline Oracles.” Pages 618–53 in The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 BC–AD 135). 3 volumes. Revised and edited by Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar, and Martin Goodman. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1986.

Sfameni Gasparro, Giulia. “La sibilla, voce del dio per pagani, ebrei e cristiani: un modulo profetico al crocevia delle fedi.” Pages 61–112 in Oracoli Profeti Sibille: Rivelazione e salvezza nel mondo antico. Rome: LAS, 2002.

Stewart Lester, Olivia. Prophetic Rivalry, Gender, and Economics: A Study in Revelation and Sibylline Oracles 4–5. WUNT II. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018.

__________. “‘I Will Speak with My Whole Person in Ecstasy’: Instrumentality and Independence in the Sibylline Oracles.” Pages 1232–46 in Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls. 2 vols. Edited by Joel Baden, Hindy Najman, and Eibert Tigchelaar. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017.

Stratton, Kimberly B. “The Eschatological Arena: Reinscribing Roman Violence in Fantasies of the End Times.” BibInt 17 (2009): 45–76.

Suárez de la Torre, Emilio. “Mideo, profecía e identidad nacional en el mundo Greco-Romano: los Oráculos Sibilinos.” Minerva 15 (2001): 245–61.

Thompson, Bard. “Patristic Use of the Sibylline Oracles.” RR 16.3–4 (March 1952): 115–36.

Toca, Madalina. “The Greek Patristic Reception of the Sibylline Oracles.” Pages 260–77 in Authoritative Texts and Reception History: Aspects and Approaches. Edited by Dan Batovici and Kristin De Troyer. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017.

Van Noorden, Helen. “Didactic and Apocalyptic Turns: Clarity and Obscurity, Homer and Hesiod in the Sibylline Oracles.” Didactic Poetry of Greece, Rome and Beyond: Knowledge, Power, Tradition. Edited by Lilah Grace Canevaro and Donncha O’Rourke. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.

__________. “The Ecology of the Sibylline Oracles.” Pages 25–40 in Ecology and Theology in the Ancient Word: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Ailsa Hunt and Hilary Marlow. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.

__________. “Philosophical Traces in the Sibylline Oracles.” Pages 103–25 in Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World. Edited by Anders Klostergaard Peterson and George H. van Kooten. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017.

__________. “‘Vergil and Homer opened my Books’: The Sibylline Oracles and the non-Jewish canon.” JSP 32.2 (2022): 167–86.

Waßmuth, Olaf. “Sibylline Oracles 1–2.” T&T Clark Encyclopaedia of Second Temple Judaism. Edited by Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Daniel M. Gurtner. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019.

__________. Orakel Sibyllinische 1–2. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011.