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This episode discusses Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast. We discuss the song's history, themes, and influences, and then do some hardcore history and dive deep into the origins of the Beast, or Antichrist, as a mythological figure.

https://youtu.be/WxnN05vOuSM?si=TxR1cah_8r2bfpFW

https://www.ironmaiden.com/

Psycho Schizo Espresso: Episode 1: Decoding the Bible’s Deepest, Darkest Secret: 666 - The Number of the Beast

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-1-decoding-the-bibles-deepest-darkest-secret/id1590913498?i=1000540256727

History Ago Go: The Antichrist: A New Biography (Philip C. Almond)

https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/the-antichrist-a-new-biography-philip-c-almond/id1523590325?i=1000542057078

Misquoting Jesus Podcast: The Book of Revelation and the End of the World: Are the Signs Now Being Fulfilled?

https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/the-book-of-revelation-and-the-end-of-the/id1650657462?i=1000599490312

The Antichrist: A New Biography, Philip C Almond

https://www.amazon.com.au/Antichrist-Biography-Philip-C-Almond/dp/1108479650

Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End, Bart D. Ehrman

https://www.amazon.com.au/Armageddon-What-Bible-Really-about/dp/1982147997

Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Revelation In The Ruins, by Steven J. Friesen

https://www.amazon.com.au/Imperial-Cults-Apocalypse-John-Revelation/dp/0195131533

Emanuel, S. (2020). Backgrounds, Backdrops, and Other Important Starting Points. In Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation: Roasting Rome (pp. 21–60). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Frenschkowski, M. (2015). Nero Redivivus as a Subject of Early Christian Arcane Teaching. In M. Labahn & O. Lehtipuu (Eds.), People under Power: Early Jewish and Christian Responses to the Roman Power Empire (pp. 229–248). Amsterdam University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16f985d.12

Gumerlock, F. x. (2006). Nero Antichrist: Patristic Evidence for the Use of Nero’s Naming in Calculating the Number of the Beast (Rev 13:18). Westminster Theological Journal, 68(2), 347–360.

Malik, S. (2020). The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McIntyre, G. (2019). Imperial cult. BRILL.

Shaw, B. D. (2015). The Myth of the Neronian Persecution. The Journal of Roman Studies, 105, 73–100. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26346894

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