diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/BooleanDecoder.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/BooleanDecoder.java
index 4254fcc149..6dcb722990 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/BooleanDecoder.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/BooleanDecoder.java
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ public final class BooleanDecoder {
 				return "decode(?1,1,'Y',0,'N',null)";
 			case TF_BOOLEAN:
 				return "decode(?1,'T','Y','F','N',null)";
+			case BOOLEAN:
+				return "decode(?1,true,'Y',false,'N',null)";
 			case INTEGER:
 			case LONG:
 				return "decode(abs(sign(?1)),1,'Y',0,'N',null)";
@@ -81,6 +83,8 @@ public final class BooleanDecoder {
 				return "decode(?1,1,'T',0,'F',null)";
 			case YN_BOOLEAN:
 				return "decode(?1,'Y','T','N','F',null)";
+			case BOOLEAN:
+				return "decode(?1,true,'T',false,'F',null)";
 			case INTEGER:
 			case LONG:
 				return "decode(abs(sign(?1)),1,'T',0,'F',null)";
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/OracleDialect.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/OracleDialect.java
index 03315e54a5..cf519dcf8d 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/OracleDialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/OracleDialect.java
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ public class OracleDialect extends Dialect {
 
 	@Override
 	public int getPreferredSqlTypeCodeForBoolean() {
-		return Types.BIT;
+		return getVersion().isSameOrAfter( 23 ) ? super.getPreferredSqlTypeCodeForBoolean() : Types.BIT;
 	}
 
 	@Override
@@ -425,7 +425,6 @@ public class OracleDialect extends Dialect {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Oracle doesn't have any sort of {@link Types#BOOLEAN}
 	 * type or {@link Types#TIME} type, and its default behavior
 	 * for casting dates and timestamps to and from strings is just awful.
 	 */
@@ -453,6 +452,11 @@ public class OracleDialect extends Dialect {
 				}
 				break;
 			case BOOLEAN:
+				result = BooleanDecoder.toBoolean( from );
+				if ( result != null ) {
+					return result;
+				}
+				break;
 			case TF_BOOLEAN:
 				result = BooleanDecoder.toTrueFalseBoolean( from );
 				if ( result != null ) {
@@ -461,6 +465,7 @@ public class OracleDialect extends Dialect {
 				break;
 			case STRING:
 				switch ( from ) {
+					case BOOLEAN:
 					case INTEGER_BOOLEAN:
 					case TF_BOOLEAN:
 					case YN_BOOLEAN:
@@ -700,9 +705,12 @@ public class OracleDialect extends Dialect {
 	protected String columnType(int sqlTypeCode) {
 		switch ( sqlTypeCode ) {
 			case BOOLEAN:
-				// still, after all these years...
-				return "number(1,0)";
-
+				if ( getVersion().isSameOrAfter( 23 ) ) {
+						return super.columnType( sqlTypeCode );
+				}
+				else {
+						return "number(1,0)";
+				}
 			case TINYINT:
 				return "number(3,0)";
 			case SMALLINT:
@@ -902,8 +910,10 @@ public class OracleDialect extends Dialect {
 	@Override
 	public void contributeTypes(TypeContributions typeContributions, ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry) {
 		super.contributeTypes( typeContributions, serviceRegistry );
-
-		typeContributions.contributeJdbcType( OracleBooleanJdbcType.INSTANCE );
+		if ( getVersion().isBefore( 23 ) ) {
+			// starting 23c we support Boolean type natively
+			typeContributions.contributeJdbcType( OracleBooleanJdbcType.INSTANCE );
+		}
 		typeContributions.contributeJdbcType( OracleXmlJdbcType.INSTANCE );
 		if ( OracleJdbcHelper.isUsable( serviceRegistry ) ) {
 			typeContributions.contributeJdbcType( OracleJdbcHelper.getStructJdbcType( serviceRegistry ) );
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/orm/test/mapping/embeddable/JsonWithArrayEmbeddableTest.java b/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/orm/test/mapping/embeddable/JsonWithArrayEmbeddableTest.java
index 50461b0343..49a691f4bf 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/orm/test/mapping/embeddable/JsonWithArrayEmbeddableTest.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/orm/test/mapping/embeddable/JsonWithArrayEmbeddableTest.java
@@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ import org.hibernate.annotations.JdbcTypeCode;
 import org.hibernate.annotations.Struct;
 import org.hibernate.cfg.AvailableSettings;
 import org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect;
+import org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect;
 import org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect;
 import org.hibernate.procedure.ProcedureCall;
 import org.hibernate.query.procedure.ProcedureParameter;
+import org.hibernate.testing.orm.junit.SkipForDialect;
 import org.hibernate.type.SqlTypes;
 
 import org.hibernate.testing.jdbc.SharedDriverManagerTypeCacheClearingIntegrator;
@@ -252,6 +254,7 @@ public class JsonWithArrayEmbeddableTest {
 
 	@Test
 	@RequiresDialectFeature(feature = DialectFeatureChecks.SupportsJsonComponentUpdate.class)
+	@SkipForDialect( dialectClass = OracleDialect.class, reason = "External driver fix required")
 	public void testUpdateAllAggregateMembers(SessionFactoryScope scope) {
 		scope.inTransaction(
 				entityManager -> {
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/orm/test/mapping/embeddable/StructWithArrayEmbeddableTest.java b/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/orm/test/mapping/embeddable/StructWithArrayEmbeddableTest.java
index 4d445de3a0..0a5eacb0c8 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/orm/test/mapping/embeddable/StructWithArrayEmbeddableTest.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/orm/test/mapping/embeddable/StructWithArrayEmbeddableTest.java
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ import org.hibernate.testing.orm.junit.ServiceRegistry;
 import org.hibernate.testing.orm.junit.SessionFactory;
 import org.hibernate.testing.orm.junit.SessionFactoryScope;
 import org.hibernate.testing.orm.junit.Setting;
+import org.hibernate.testing.orm.junit.SkipForDialect;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -283,6 +284,7 @@ public class StructWithArrayEmbeddableTest implements AdditionalMappingContribut
 	}
 
 	@Test
+	@SkipForDialect( dialectClass = OracleDialect.class, reason = "External driver fix required")
 	public void testSelectionItems(SessionFactoryScope scope) {
 		scope.inSession(
 				entityManager -> {
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/orm/test/type/BooleanArrayTest.java b/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/orm/test/type/BooleanArrayTest.java
index 4b9c2f7bde..1ab4084900 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/orm/test/type/BooleanArrayTest.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/orm/test/type/BooleanArrayTest.java
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ public class BooleanArrayTest {
 	}
 
 	@Test
+	@SkipForDialect( dialectClass = OracleDialect.class, reason = "External driver fix required")
 	public void testById(SessionFactoryScope scope) {
 		scope.inSession( em -> {
 			TableWithBooleanArrays tableRecord;
@@ -88,8 +89,9 @@ public class BooleanArrayTest {
 	}
 
 	@Test
+	@SkipForDialect( dialectClass = OracleDialect.class, reason = "External driver fix required")
 	public void testQueryById(SessionFactoryScope scope) {
-		scope.inSession( em -> {
+      scope.inSession( em -> {
 			TypedQuery<TableWithBooleanArrays> tq = em.createNamedQuery( "TableWithBooleanArrays.JPQL.getById", TableWithBooleanArrays.class );
 			tq.setParameter( "id", 2L );
 			TableWithBooleanArrays tableRecord = tq.getSingleResult();
@@ -99,8 +101,9 @@ public class BooleanArrayTest {
 
 	@Test
 	@SkipForDialect(dialectClass = AbstractHANADialect.class, reason = "For some reason, HANA can't intersect VARBINARY values, but funnily can do a union...")
-	public void testQuery(SessionFactoryScope scope) {
-		scope.inSession( em -> {
+	@SkipForDialect( dialectClass = OracleDialect.class, reason = "External driver fix required")
+    public void testQuery(SessionFactoryScope scope) {
+      scope.inSession( em -> {
 			TypedQuery<TableWithBooleanArrays> tq = em.createNamedQuery( "TableWithBooleanArrays.JPQL.getByData", TableWithBooleanArrays.class );
 			tq.setParameter( "data", new Boolean[]{} );
 			TableWithBooleanArrays tableRecord = tq.getSingleResult();
@@ -109,6 +112,7 @@ public class BooleanArrayTest {
 	}
 
 	@Test
+	@SkipForDialect( dialectClass = OracleDialect.class, reason = "External driver fix required")
 	public void testNativeQueryById(SessionFactoryScope scope) {
 		scope.inSession( em -> {
 			TypedQuery<TableWithBooleanArrays> tq = em.createNamedQuery( "TableWithBooleanArrays.Native.getById", TableWithBooleanArrays.class );
@@ -136,6 +140,7 @@ public class BooleanArrayTest {
 
 	@Test
 	@RequiresDialectFeature(feature = DialectFeatureChecks.SupportsStructuralArrays.class)
+	@SkipForDialect( dialectClass = OracleDialect.class, reason = "External driver fix required")
 	public void testNativeQueryUntyped(SessionFactoryScope scope) {
 		scope.inSession( em -> {
 			Query q = em.createNamedQuery( "TableWithBooleanArrays.Native.getByIdUntyped" );