“Frenzied Women” Speak: Sibyls and their Prophecies in the Orthodox Slavic World

Dr. Pesenson will discuss the extant Slavonic Sibylline texts circulating in the medieval and early modern Orthodox Slavic world, focusing on their literary-historical significance and relationship to Greek and Latin Sibylline literature, as well as their connection with the corpus of the Sibylline Oracles and other Old Testament apocrypha.