Anthropology

is that Revelations is both a very dubious text/source (seemingly both disjointed and psychotic - while offering little as far as either religious thought or prescription - and as such a really poor choice for inclusion ... ?)

And - the Roman 'curse' theory could also be turn out to be nothing more than the latest exercise in academic imagination and speculation - soon to be shunted aside and forgotten in scholarly circles. Seems pretty thin to me - but then I'm not a scholar.