¥Evangelicals are more
skeptical about alleged allusions to
Greco-Roman paganism:
–Partly due to
biblical teaching against idolatry
–Partly to
impression some commentators give that author
of Revelation was faking a vision
¥I suggest another spin
on this data, that God (the bookÕs ultimate
author) was communicating to his
Greco-Roman readers in terms they would understand,
since most of them were raised in paganism.