Anglian
let us love one another, for love is of God
Thanks, we are in entire agreement. Fact is we have no idea who wrote the Apocalypse, and many scholars have similar doubts as to whether we can really identify the author of St. John's Gospel with the Apostle John.Uh yeah . look at the frequency of greek words per sentence in revelation . (very simple) and the frequency of greek words per sentence in John .(many, complex) . and then after that look at all the literary devices used in the Gospel of John .. the writer of Revelation does not illustrate this "literary" knowledge so any teacher would have alarm bells go off . it is not all that unreasonable to think that John's name was put on it for continuity purposes .
the personalities of the people writing these texts is totally different . writing style is like a fingerprint . so i would need some real good reason why the author of revelation wrote like a tradesman and the author of John wrote like a tax collector (like Matthew or John-Mark) or other educated profession (such as a literary scholar) .
the gap is a bit too obvious to not notice .
peace,
Anglian
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