May. 7th, 2005

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As I believe I may have mentioned, the use of SotA imaging techniques has rendered a hoard of ancient papyri legible, and among the interesting fragments is apparently a version of the Revelation of St John the Divine (I assume it'll be the oldest extant copy) in which the number of the beast is given as 616. In a different article about it, it's suggested that it probably refers to Caligula.

What this means for believers in biblical inerrancy is as yet unclear, but it seems likely they'll just ignore it the way they do most inconvenient facts.

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