1.2.1. Babylon’s Historic Fall
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4 Merrill K. Unger, R. Harrison, Frederic F Vos, and Cyril J. Barber, The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1988), s.v. “Babylon.”
6 “Dated cuneiform texts up to A.D. 110 show that the site was still occupied.”—Ibid.
7 Moshe Beere, “Judaism (Babylonian Judaism),” in David Noel Freeman, ed., The Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York, NY: Doubleday, 1996, c1992), 3:1080.
8 Ibid., 3:1082.
9 “According to Septimius Severus the site was deserted by A.D. 200.”—Wiseman, “Babylon,” 1:390.
10 Ibid.
11 Image courtesy of the Perry-Casta?eda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin. [www.lib.utexas.edu/maps]
12 How strange then to find Barnhouse commenting: “What we have seen of the state of the ruins of literal Babylon satisfies us that the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah have been fulfilled.”—Donald Grey Barnhouse, Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1971), Rev. 18:1-3. Barnhouse essentially suggests that God’s language of prophecy is “sloppy.”