Berenice and the Great Whore

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According a certain interpretation, The Great Whore in Revelation 17 is the Jewish princess Berenice that he had a love story with Titus the Emperor.
What do you think of this thesis?
It is possible that The Great Whore is inspired by this historical figure?
 
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I had never heard of this idea until now. It sounds unlikely, to put it mildly. Titus and Berenice had been planning to marry. The wedding was called off, apparently, because of the Cleopatra precedent. A Roman emperor marrying an Oriental princess had come to be seen as politically unacceptable.
 
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The Great Whore had access to power and wealth, for at least 3.5 years. Berenice never made it and Titus lasted only 2 years on the throne.
 
The apostles and disciples wrote in order to teach and admonish and sanctify, so it seems unlikely that it would have only been one specific historical figure. Jerusalem and/or Rome are the most likely. Jerusalem because the Jewish authorities were being lapdogs to the Romans in the persecutions, and/or Rome itself, because it had the political and military might to try to squash the spread of the early Church.

 
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