The Jewish and Pagan Mythological Origins of Revelation 13: The Beasts from the Sea and the Earth and the Fear of Nero’s Return

The bizarre and often grotesque imagery of the book of Revelation haunts like a specter over the past two thousand years of Christian history. To the average reader, some of its most memorable images are also its most mysterious. The number 666 and the phrase “mark of the beast” have embedded themselves in pop culture, [ ]