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In fact Nero's reign was this stupid. All the John's revelation mythology that informs Christian eschatology is (biblical academic consensus submits) about Rome under Nero. Nero was notoriously as vein as Trump and is probably the same sociological phenomenon.
King Heron is once again eating all the frogs.
I got a follow up question to the biblical academic consensus - where do you get that from? I mean literally, since I always wanted to kind of read the bible with these kinds of interpretations, but I absolutely don't know where to go for a source like this. Any tips?
Check out this YouTube channel from Dan McClellan. He's a biblical scholar with a Bachelor's (BA) in Near East Studies from Brigham Young University with a minor in Classical Greek, a Master's (MSt) in Jewish Studies from Oxford, a Master's (MA) in Biblical Studies from Trinity Western University, and a Doctorate (PhD) in Theology and Religion from the University of Exeter.
He's gotten kind of popular over the past couple of years debunking religious nuts on TikTok, but he's got a lot of very informative videos on the Bible and biblical history, what certain books or passages were actually talking about, and so on. He presents things in a clear and understandable way, without fluff or editorializing. I can't recommend him enough.
I think a good starter might be a YouTube channel called Esoterica.