Mother of Gods, Mother of Harlots.
One of the primary interpretive challenges in the study of Revelation 17 has been to ascertain the identity of an historical personage or entity evoked by the description "Whore of Babylon." This paper explores a previously neglected figure, Cybele the "Great Mother" Goddess. Through an examination...
| Publicado en: | Novum Testamentum Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 52 - 71 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2017
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