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How much damage has been done by binding the Old Testament & the New as a single volume? In some ways: the magic & the ceremonialism & the sound of the language & the brilliance of the characters -- & perhaps the simple physical bulk of it – the Old Testament is a more interesting & exciting book. Revelations is a hearkening back to the old detailed decorative & operatic manner – is its quality as great as Job or the Psalms or the various Prophets?
This book – the Old & the New Testaments, all in a lump – tends to make one forget that the Advent of Christ was the beginning of a truly New Dispensation. When William Blake comes out flat-footed and says:

                                    "God is Jesus."

It really shocks us. It is very to understand that God has become a reformed character – has decided to show himself in man's shape, & to suffer and die in atonement for his own antique wickedness & destructiveness & jealousy. He offers this symbol of atonement to us; we must forgive him. {As for myself, having forgiven him, I return him to his Book; the hero & moving spirit of it.  [ P.S. Why isn't all this interesting?]  Only Jesus sometimes manages to crash through its covers at me in reading Blake, in listening to Bach, in "thinking mythologically" of Osiris – Adonis – Orpheus – the really useful or live message of the New Testament is (a) renewal / renaissance (b) resurrection (c) forgiveness & love, (d) that life is imagination, poetry, & art – not ownership, command, law & logic.