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The Coming Apocalypse! Jewish and Christian Views of the End of the World

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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Is the Book of Revelation's Condemnation of Jezebel Representative of a Shifting Attitude Towards Women?

In the book of Revelation, Jesus condemns a woman prophet named Jezebel. John thinks that she is completely wrong because she allows people to eat meat offered to pagan idols in pagan worship ceremonies. Christ tells Jezebel that he's going to throw her on a bed and men are going to come and have sex with her. And Jesus then will kill her children. This is not a very warming view of Christ's relationship to women. It's an interesting question for today, has Christianity gone some other way?

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