For fuck's sake, people:

[wolven7]

It's pronounced Rev-uh-ley-shuhn! Sans ending "s." "Revelations" would be you talking about John and Paul and/or Peter and/or Abraham and/or Adam and/or Moses. Or Thomas. Or Zephaniah. Or Sedrach. Or any number of other apocalyptics.

Who can guess how many of them were canonical, and which one people mean when they misname the fucking title?

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Yeah, so I've been on about the Bible, a lot. I have a New Testament class, and a pre-existing interest in The Apocalypse.

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[mendori.livejournal.com]

Sedrach
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=28&chapter=1&version=63

Zephaniah
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=45&chapter=1&version=63

Thomas
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas.html


...Just pointing out the three you didnt link to.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I was just tired of cutting and pasting links...

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

That has driven me insane for the longest time. I'm Jewish, and that's not even one of our books... so if I can remember the correct name, why can't Christians?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Because people Don't Fucking Listen.

They hear that it's an entire Book Of. . . and so they think there has to be more than one. They also forget that Apocalypse is the Greek root word For "Revelation."

The Book of The Apocalypse of John (Apokalupsis Iōannou). Silly people, not knowing their etymology.