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  • From: "David Inglis" <david AT colonialcommerce.com>
  • To: corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: 1 Peter: Babylon in Egypt?
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 17:48:50 -0400


I friend has just sent me this email:

> Have you, or could you, come across any evidence that 1 Peter was written
> in Babylon-in-Egypt (early Cairo, Egypt), and that Peter and Mark were
> there at a time when 1 Peter is thought to have been written?
>
> ...and if so, thus the reference to "Babylon" in 1 Pet 5:13 "She who is in
> Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you her greetings, and so does my
> son Mark" refers to Babylon-in-Egypt, and not a 'symbol' for Rome, nor
> Babylon, Assyria.
>
> If you have any clues or cites that affirm the above, or positively
> irrefutably, disproves it, perhaps you could send them along? It would
> help me in a part of my end-times research.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> [Name]
>
> ps: here are some links that allude to the above concept..if I find any
> more solid leads, I'll pass them along.
>
> http://members.lycos.nl/kopten/Mark_e.htm
>
> http://www.ccel.org/c/calvin/comment3/comm_vol45/htm/iv.htm
>
> http://208.139.136.227/Stories/april02/cairostrong.html

I hadn't come across this view that 'Babylon' was in Egypt, so could I ask
whether anyone has any evidence either for or against.

Thanks,

Dave Inglis
david AT colonialcommerce.com
3538 O'Connor Drive
Lafayette, CA, USA



  • 1 Peter: Babylon in Egypt?, David Inglis, 06/17/2002

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