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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Main Author: Biguzzi, Giancarlo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Peeters 2006
In: Biblica
Year: 2006, Volume: 87, Issue: 3, Pages: 371-386
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