The Dragon Spitting Frogs: On the Imagery of Revelation 16.13–14This article is based on lectures given at the University of Aberdeen (21 March 2007) and at the SBL International Meeting in Vienna (22–26 July 2007). I am grateful to the participants on both occasions for their helpful questions and comments.
WITETSCHEK, STEPHAN; WITETSCHEK STEPHAN; University of Cambridge
Журнал:
New Testament Studies
Дата:
2008
Аннотация:
In Rev 16.13–14 we encounter minor characters of the bookʼs diabolic bestiary, ‘three unclean spirits like frogs’ that proceed from the mouths of the Dragon and the two Beasts. This article attempts to understand this detail in relation to the metaphorical connotations other ancient Greek and Jewish writers attributed to frogs: they were mostly connected with silliness and loquaciousness. In this context, the picturesque detail of frog-like demons belongs to Johnʼs strategy of reassuring his audiences by ridiculing the Dragon and the Beasts and the powers they represent.
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