It is useless, therefore, to go to the manticism of the heathen to get light as to the nature of Hebrew prophecy.
1867 April, Henry Bannister, “Fairbairn on Prophecy”, article ii in The Methodist Quarterly Review XLIX (fourth series, volume XIX): April №, ed. D.D. Whedon, page 186:
And in this regard the oracles, the manticisms, and the pagan wisdom of all the heathen ages, stand nowhere in favorable comparison with it.
1869, George Western Thompson, Deus-Semper: The Norm + the Germ × the Conditions = the Fruit, discourse v: “The Personality of God: The Individuality of Man”, page 128:
This isolation and irresolvable unity of the Self-consciousness will account for the return and presidency of the conscious Self in and over all the phenomena of the complex organization, and over the spontaneities, instincts, mesmerisms, and manticisms — so familiar to the old Greek mind.
Hence the name I suggest to the fifth scribal college is the school of politics. Perhaps this college also became interested in manticism and produced apocalypses – but this is a largely non-biblical matter and not to be raised here.