Re: How John Wrote the Book of Revelation Chapter 1
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 3:17 am
I would disagree, with your assessment on the parallels and the writing. Many tools are available in the modern age that auto corrects many of the grammar problems found in Revelation. We have all received emails in which have heavy edits and rushed to send having many of the problems you speak of. I would argue that the literacy rate is higher today than back then. The tools at our disposal is better today than back then, and when you have no punctuation or spacing, that adds complication. Unless you are saying that in that no College educated, English speaker has ever made those mistakes in an email or a writing. I can tell you I have made many of these kinds of mistakes and so has many.
Please note that has been edited numerous times.
Things that cannot be determined that would affect the quality of the writing:
I work in the IT world and you should read some of the emails and documentation from Native English speakers.
Please note that has been edited numerous times.
Things that cannot be determined that would affect the quality of the writing:
- How long did the entire process took John. This assumes the shorter the process the more problematic the grammar would be
- The environment for the writing. This assumes the more interruptions the worse the writing would be.
- The time of the writing. If John is given short periods of time, such as an hour every evening then the writing. If he had longer periods to write then it would be easier for him to keep track of all the parallels
- We don't know how lazy John was. I theorize that he used wax tablets to do his writing. Rewriting the text would mean erasing and putting new text in the blank area. If the changes could not fit in the space than the entire wax tablet would have to be rewritten. Now he would have overage problem where there would be a tablet that is largely blank. That might have been a problem in the cost of the publishing (I am assuming that they counted wax tablets and multiplied it by the lines to produce the price). Anyway, adding text to a wax tablet is not like adding text to a word processer or even paper today.
I work in the IT world and you should read some of the emails and documentation from Native English speakers.