# Digest urth.v028.n181 *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 16 Apr 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Richard Horton *16 Apr 2000, 19:46* > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 06:10:41 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: > Even fewer people know there is no such book as "RevelationS". :-) It's > the Revelation of St. John, or the Apocalypse of St. John, or Revelation, > or Apocalypse, or The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Attributing it to "St. John" is controversial as well, as contemporary scholarship seems to agree that John of Patmos, the author of Revelation, is not the apostle John. ``` -- Rich Horton | Stable Email: mailto://richard.horton at sff.net Home Page: http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton Also visit SF Site (http://www.sfsite.com) and Tangent Online (http://www.sfsite.com/tangent) ``` --- ### Michael Straight *17 Apr 2000, 10:31 · follows Richard Horton* > On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Richard Horton wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 06:10:41 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >> Even fewer people know there is no such book as "RevelationS". :-) It's >> the Revelation of St. John, or the Apocalypse of St. John, or Revelation, >> or Apocalypse, or The Revelation of Jesus Christ. > Attributing it to "St. John" is controversial as well, as contemporary > scholarship seems to agree that John of Patmos, the author of > Revelation, is not the apostle John. I don't think "contemporary scholarship" is that monolithic. A lot of those authorship debates seem to me to be based on too little evidence. Some of the arguments I've seen for that position could be used to prove that the Gene Wolfe who wrote the New Sun books is not the same person who wrote the Long Sun books (significant stylistic differences, a large chunk of vocabulary unique to one series or the other, different tehological ideas and concerns, etc.) -Rostrum ---