Is the Babylon of Revelation Rome or Jerusalem?
The Babylon of Revelation 17–18 has been interpreted as imperial Rome since antiquity, but some twenty interpreters have rejected such a solution in recent centuries and have held that Babylon instead should be Jerusalem. This is not a minor question since it changes the interpretation of the whole...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
2006
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Biblica
Year: 2006, Volume: 87, Issue: 3, Pages: 371-386 |
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| Summary: | The Babylon of Revelation 17–18 has been interpreted as imperial Rome since antiquity, but some twenty interpreters have rejected such a solution in recent centuries and have held that Babylon instead should be Jerusalem. This is not a minor question since it changes the interpretation of the whole book, because Rev would become all of a sudden an anti-Jewish libel, after having been an anti- Roman one. This article discusses the pros and cons of the two interpretations and concludes that the traditional one matches both the details and the plot of the book much more than any other. |
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| ISSN: | 2385-2062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblica
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