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To build on what lurkette and tecoyah said: You might want to look into reading some "histories" of biblical translation and revision. One can gain a lot of insight into how the Christian Bible has been used and changed over time in order to match or shift the zeitgeist of the ear. Take a look at Benson Bobrick wonderful popular history called Wide As the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired. Bobrick lays out an easy to understand history of how the bible was translated into English and the editing distionions that were made to keep both the Anglicans and the Puritans happy.
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