Re the musings on Whore of Babylon, I don't profess to be any
kind of Biblical scholar, but here's some dialogue from my
April '07 novel, Croaked!
(an at least semi-noir mystery set in a 60s men's
magazine):
"Nearly everybody misquotes the apostle John," Archbishop
Hewitt said. "What he wrote was not 'whore of Babylon' but
'whore named Babylon.'" Buckley paused in the midst of
lighting his cigar to look at him blankly.
"If that's the punch line, I don't get it."
"It's not ha-ha funny," Hewitt said. "Religious scholars have
come to assume that John was speaking in code. The 'whore
named Babylon' was a reference to the city of Rome, not to a
woman."
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