It is quite easy to recognize coded messages of hope for the end of Roman persecution within the Book of Revelation. «Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, the wicked harlot who is seated upon many waters¿» clearly refers to the city of Rome. The more skillfully constructed, more subtle and effective anti-Roman cryptograms discreetly placed throughout most of the other documents of the New Testament, however, present a much more formidable challenge to modern readers. These symbolic messages of hope and liberation are the subject of the present study, the first concerted analysis of these cryptograms.
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The Author: Norman A. Beck is a Professor of Theology and Classical Languages and the Chairman of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Texas Lutheran University. He received his Ph.D. in New Testament from Princeton Theological Seminary. His most recent book is Mature Christianity in the Twenty-first Century: The Recognition and Repudiation of the Anti-Jewish Polemic of the New Testament.
