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Friday, May 06, 2005Maybe it is not Bill Gates After All Church Times - Bible writers got the Beast's number wrong, say scholars Scholars working through fragments of Greek papyri believe the number of the Beast in Revelation is 616, not 666, as traditionally translated and quoted in much popular end-of-the-world Christian literature. The calculation has been made by giving numerical value to Greek letters found in a scrap of Revelation dating from about AD 300. Until now, most translators have followed the text of later manuscripts. Revd Prof David Parker, a New Testament professor at the University of Birmingham, said the newly studied text "adds weight to those who believe it is a reference to Caligula’s attempt to desecrate the Temple in Jerusalem by having his statue erected there as part of the cult of emperor worship."Posted by: Mark | 3:15 pm |
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