>>>>It is actually not plural but is Revelation...... unless you are a Southerner... and many of us Southerners in fact do say Revelations....:)
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>>>>>I think a proper understanding of the the Book of Revelations
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>>>Interesting! As a fourth generation San Franciscan and Roman Catholic, we always say the Book of Revelations. Perhaps that is because my mom was a Cummings! :)
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>>I have a copy of the King James Version (really!) and there it is called "The Revelation of S. John the Divine."
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>The Catholic version is not the KJV though but the Douey (sp?)

I understand that there are different versions, and I was not trying to correct Tom W. It was more in the nature of an FWIW.

Somewhat related, the Coursera class I am taking is "The Modern World Since 1750." I am enjoying it greatly. Yesterday my daughter Emily asked "Why are you doing that?" and I said it's a knowledge for knowledge's sake kind of thing. I was not raised by wolves and know something about it but wanted to know more. And even though it is only the end of the first week, which emphasizes the period around 1760, I am already learning a lot. For example, the reasons the nation-states of western Europe gained an advantage over other empires at that time. It's fascinating. IAC your knowledge of history is one of the things that inspired me to do this. Not in an effort to compete with you, because I could spend the rest of my life studying history and still not catch up to you, just in the sense of inspiration.

Coursera follows actual college timeframes and this semester is already underway. (It even has a spring break week, which cracks me up for an online class). The grade, which really doesn't matter to anyone other than the student, consists of a total of scores on weekly quizzes. 40 million people around the world are taking this class, which is a tip of the hat to the internet. In the related discussion groups, which I only peeked in at in the beginning, the main topics were how to obtain the recommended textbook and the translation to non-English languages feature. The professor is a real, living, breathing University of Virginia history prof with a comforting bedside manner. There is nothing "eat your peas" about it. Terrific stuff.