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I ran across this article which mentions a possible connection between a newly discovered Arabian zodiac and the astronomical references in Revelation.

http://leiden-islamblog.nl/articles/an- ... discovered

(I accidentally posted this in the wrong category before so sorry if you have already seen it)

This sums it up. I personally would not make any conclusion about Revelation. Knowing it was plagiarized comes first, and if shared traditions were used, is simply unknown.

The full historical implications of this finding are not yet clear, and many questions remain open

its discovery underlines one inescapable fact: the image of pre-Islamic Arabia as presented in the literary sources of the Abbasid era is incomplete.