Revelation also differs from apocalypses that divide time into periods that occur in a linear sequence. As noted above, 2 Baruch 53–74 outlines periods of history from Adam to the end times, and a similar outline appears in the “Apocalypse of Weeks” in 1 Enoch 93:1–10 and 91:11–17. Daniel offers a variation on this approach by repeated visions of a series of kingdoms. In Daniel 7, the lion, bear, leopard, and horned beast represent the empires of the Babylonians, Medes, Persians, and Greeks. In Daniel
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