Towards Understanding Revelation

Tag: Babylon

  • 4/21/25 DATING THE GOSPELS, PART 5: THE BOOK OF MARK

    I was organizing my posts and saving them to a hard drive when I realized that this post was not published on the date that I had planned to publish it. So, here it is, out of order and late… We’re continuing on with the arguments from James Crossley’s book, DATE OF MARK’S GOSPEL –…

  • 3/27/23 THE DEBATE ABOUT THE DATE OF THE BOOK OF DANIEL, PART 2

    3/27/23 THE DEBATE ABOUT THE DATE OF THE BOOK OF DANIEL, PART 2

    Here’s the second installment.  The Arguments Based on the History of Babylonian Kings Critics claim that there was never a king of Babylon named “Belshazzar;” the last king was Nabonidus. Also, Nebuchadnezzar didn’t have a son named “Belshazzar.” Four cylinders were found in the ruins of a ziggurat in 1854 at Ur which contained a…