 By analogy with the early and broad acceptance of many of the Hebrew and Greek scriptural texts, the term "protocanonical" is also sometimes used to describe those works of the 27 book New Testament which were the most widely accepted by the early Church (the Homologoumena, a Greek term meaning "confessed and undisputed"), as distinguished from the remaining books (the Antilegomena, "spoken against").Some of the Antilegomena, such as the Book of Revelation, later joined the protocanonical books in the canon.It may also be used to refer to all 27 books in their entirety, since they all have been recognized for 1500 years by almost all Christians, especially when making a distinction between them and uncanonical writings of the early Church.