4 big myths of Book of Revelation31 Mar 2012 | CNN
Elaine Pagels, one of the world’s leading biblical scholars, first read Revelation as a teenager. She read it again in writing her latest book,
Revelations: Visions, Prophecy & Politics in the Book of Revelation.
Here are what she says the four big myths about Revelation:
1. It’s about the end of the world. The writer of Revelation was actually describing the way his own world ended.
2. The numerals 666 stand for the devil. The writer of Revelation didn’t really intend 666 as the devil’s digits. He was describing another incarnation of evil: the Roman emperor, Nero.
3. The writer of Revelation was a Christian. The author of Revelation was a devout Jew who saw Jesus as the messiah. But he didn’t like the message that the apostle Paul and other followers of Jesus were preaching.
4. There is only one Book of Revelation. There are plenty of books like Revelation that didn’t make it into the Bible.
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