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Sibylline Oracles

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Sibylline Oracles: see Pseudepigrapha Pseudepigrapha [Gr.,=things falsely ascribed], a collection of early Jewish and some Jewish-Christian writings composed between c.200 B.C. and c.A.D. 200, not found in the Bible or rabbinic writings.
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The Sibylline Oracles called it a double-edged sword that destroys the spirit.
As an example, he refers to a list from the Sibylline Oracles (2:70-77, a third- or fourth-century Jewish and then Christian source--see http://www.
Such efforts included: (1) creating literature such as the Sibylline Oracles, Josephus' Contra Apionem, Philo's Apologia hyper Ioudaion, the Letter of Aristeas, Joseph and Aseneth, and much else that was sometimes used for missionary purposes; (2) opening synagogues for interested invited guests and visitors.
 
 
 
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