Capitolo 16
the most excellent." Josephus as the Jewish Hellenists of a first
both together, saw in the Judaism an universal religion from which you/he/she should be separated
the whole peoples of the earth. The Judaism was to Josephus, as to Philo, not
a contrast or antithesis to the Greek culture but the perfection and
the peak of the culture.
The most curious efforts to propagate the Judaism were, however, those that
you/he/she was dressed in a Sibylline disguise. In antiquity of pagan, the Sibyl
it was an inhaled prophetess whose mysterious oracles pertained to the
destinies of city and nations. These oracles enjoyed tall respect among
the cultivated Greek, and, in him the B.C.E of second century., some
Hebrews of Alexandrian it used of them to recommend the Judaism to the pagan
world. In the Jewish Sibylline books the religion of Israel is introduced
as a hope and a threat; a threat to those that refuse to follow the
the best life, a promise of the salvation to those that repent. Around the year
80 C.Es., a book of some kind was composed. It is that known as which is the
Quarter Book of the Sibylline Oracles. The language is Greek the form,
toward of hexameter. In this poem, the Sibyl, in the semblance of a prophetess,
it says some decree of those that you/they withstand the wish of the truth of the one God,
you praise the God of Israel, and it holds out a beautiful perspective to the
faithful.
The book opens with a call:
Feels, people of proud Asia, Europe, also,
How much things from great, strong-sounding mouth,
Entirely true and of mine really, I prophesy.
Any oracle of Apollo I distort this,
Who vain men call a god, tho' he deceived;
But of the mighty God that human hands
Moulded doesn't like struck dumb idols cut in stone.
The Sibyl speaks of the true God to love that brings benediction. The
irreligious triumph for once as Assyria the Media, Phrygia, Greece and
Egypt had triumphed. Jerusalem will fall, and the Temple perishes in
flames, but punishment will follow, earth will be devastated from the