Abstract
What possible method for historical-religious research? Is there still space for the use of historical comparison? These are some of the questions addressed in the following pages. They aim to test the validity of the historical-comparative method, as the most suitable working tool for the historical study of religions, applying it to the analysis of a historical-religious phenomenon of particular relevance in the Hellenistic-Roman world and in Christianity of the first centuries, that is the use of oracular practices as tools of communication between the human and the divine. In particular, the analysis will focus on the role played in this panorama by the Sibyl and her Oracles, understood as a ‘prophetic module at the crossroads’ of religious worlds: a useful field of investigation to offer a careful reflection on the need for historical comparison.
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