Fall of Babylon – Additional Resources

Suggested Reading:

Gonzalez, Revelation, 115-130.

Further Reading:

Ward Ewing, “Babylon the Great and the New Jerusalem,” in Henning Graf Reventlow, Yair Hoffman, and Benjamin Uffenheimer, eds., Politics and Theopolitics in the Bible and Postbiblical Literature (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994).

Craig R. Koester, “Roman Slave Trade and the Critique of Babylon in Revelation 18,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 70 (2008) 766–786.

W. H. Lampe, “The Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy (Rev 19:10),” in W. C. Weinrich, ed., The New Testament Age: Essays in Honor of Bo Reike(Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1980) 245–58.

R. Smith, “Reclaiming the Social Justice Message in Revelation: Materialism, Imperialism, and Divine Judgement in Revelation 18,” Transformation7 (1990) 28–33.

Articles: (click to view)

• The Monumental Fall of Babylon: What Really Shattered the Empire?, by Wu Mingren
• Babylon, at Encyclopedia Britannica
• The Rise and Fall of Babylon, by John F. Walvoord
• The “Fall of Babylon” Motif in the Books of Jeremiah and Revelation, by Kenneth Mulzac

Sermons: (click to view)

• Are We Faithful to Jesus in a Secular World?, by Paul Hoskins
• Beyond the Lectionary Text: Revelation 19:1-10, by Heidi De Jonge

Art: (click to view)

• The Fall of Babylon, by John Martin
• The Tower of Babel (Vienna), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder