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The name Babylon means 'gate of the gods', and it was an opulent city in ancient Mesopotamia. For centuries, scholars and readers of the Bible have mused upon the symbolism of Babylon in the book of Revelation. If you are unfamiliar with this, have a look at Revelation 14, 16, 17 and 18. It is not meant to be the actual place, of course, though for the Israelites it would have had negative connotations. It was the place to which the Judahites were deported in 597, 586 and c. 582 B.C., where...

Roughly 25 years ago, a neighbour told me that she had started this new thing called a weblog, in order to communicate with people who...