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Yes just thinking purely about the actual written information in an ancient book it's hard to imagine it could survive copying without a single mistake no matter how much attention to detail there is.

Add to the translation from language to language over many centuries, phrases may not translate very well even within the same language due to changes in culture over a long time. How many phrases and words do we in the English world use that were common even just 100 years ago now imagine 2,000 years ago.



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