Originally posted by KingsGambit
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Or there is the Jewish-Patristic connecting of Gen.10.8-12 & 11.1-9, with Rev.17-18 (& 2 Thessalonians 2, assisted by hefty helpings of Daniel). Thanks to the connection of the passages in Genesis, Nimrod came to be thought of as the typical tyrant. Because of the likeness between the PN. Ur, and the Hebrew word for "fire", & Daniel 3, there was a Jewish legend that Abram was thrown into a furnace by Nimrod for refusing to worship idols. Under the influence of the Septuagint, which translates *gibbor* as "giant" rather than "mighty", by way of the Old Latin version of Genesis used by St Augustine, Nimrod came to be thought of as a giant - which is why he is one of Dante's giants in Inferno canto 31. Giants get a bad rap in the Bible (& in Greek & other mythologies), so it was natural to put all this together & see Nimrod, the first king after the Flood, as a type of Antichrist & an all-round Bad Person.
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