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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt:... to the conquest of Greece by the Eomans in 146 B.c. The decisive evidence he detects in an earlier passage,1 in which the fortunes of the Seleucids are enigmatically described. By carefully comparing with historical events the allusions which here occur, he arrives at the reign of the usurper Tryphon, who seized the throne in 142 B.c. Tryphon was overthrown by Antiochus Sidetes, who succeeded him in 137 B.c.; and thus are determined the limits within which the work must have been written.2 Other indications are found in the prophecy of the desolation of Libya by barbardus-minded enemies,3 which it is most natural to refer to the destruction of Carthage by the Romans in 146 B.c., and in the predicted ruin of Greece by a 'very barbarous nation, '4 which, though generally referred to the conquest of Perseus of Macedonia in 168 B.c., seems to suit best the overthrow of Achaea in 146 B.c., as it is expressly said that 'a servile yoke shall be upon all Greece.'6 There appears, therefore, to be satisfactory evidence for placing the third Book of the Sibylline Oracles in the second century before Christ. Volkinar, however, while admitting that it is in the main pre-Christian, places it as late as 63 B.c. He does so On the alleged ground that the entrance of Pompeius into Jerusalem is clearly indicated. He appeals to the passage6 where the Sibyl, having spoken of the prosperity of Judaea, declares that kings will begin to be angry with one another, and that again kings of the nations will come and threaten the Temple. The first allusion he refers to the disputes between Hyrcanus and Aristobulus for the sovereignty of Judcea, and the second to the interference of Aretas, an 1 v. 388-400. * Jiid. Apok. S. 68-71. 3 v. 323 eq. 4 v. 520 sq. i 'EXXaSi..