>jorganos wrote:
>>The Abiding Book has become a distant and unknown ideal source already
>>during the Imperial Age, allowing several different scriptures to
>>coexist all claiming to be the closest to the original.
>
>Hmm.. That doesn't seem to be the case from reading the 2nd Age stuff,
>although it seems possible. I guess when the Empire really starts to
>self destruct it goes missing, but the implication reading Jrustela and
>others is that there are a fair number of copies of the original. There
>is the hint of the whole "it might have been lost when they took it to
>the capitol" thing, of course.
The copies aren't photocopies. They are handwritten copies some of which have been made from another copy. The scribes will have introduced errors, corrected what they saw as errors, left bits out and added the sayings of local religious people.
That's assuming the copies are in the original language. If not you've got mistranslations on top of that.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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