Fight the Power: How to Read, and Re-Read, the Book of Revelation
…n Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess.” She’s a false prophet, like Balaam—but of course those are insult names for Gentiles that John would have gotten from the Hebrew bible. And of course both of these “false prophets” were Gentiles. They were. And they were saying things that John thought were completely wrong; they were teaching people, he thought, to violate purity in terms of sexuality and in terms of food. So John detests them—and he th…
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