This list does not mention the Ethiopian Coptic cannon, the Coptic cannon, the Jerusalem Bible, the Marcion Cannon or the Syriac. All of which are different again, depending on when and where they were compiled.
The history of the bible is a mess.
When people in the west talk about the "Holy Bible" they are talking almost invariably about the KJV an edited and retranslated Anglican version of the Vulgate Bible dating from 1611, or the Douay Rheims version the Vatican approved edit and translation of the Vulgate from 1582 which has been "revised" countless times, the last time being in 1941.
Most RC and CofE members are not aware of differences between their respective version and are completely unaware of all the other canons.
MY personal favourite is the pre 2013 The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures used by the Jehovah's witless, which was translated by a committe of seven "scholars" only one of who spoke "modern" Greek, none of who spoke Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew or ancient Greek and is such a joke that in 2013, all copies were withdrawn and replaced with the revised edition, which is basically the KJV having been run through a find and replace program to change every mention of god, Elohim, Adonia and the tetrogram with Jehovah.
The early days of when the text was written, the people writing were the gods. Collectively, called "word of God".
The text left Israeli culture and some of the original, perhaps unwritten, verbal connitation understanding of what was meant got lost and the new language words gave some change to the understanding that wasn't original.
It's like the original word Ruach is force like breath. It got changed into ghost as in holy ghost.
Force of kinetic energy and ghost are basically different.
They are all works of fiction anyway. You get just as much moral guidance from Aesop’s Fables, and it’s a better read.
Better moral guidance from Aesop's Fables. At least they had just on author and managed to be self consistent.
But thinking about it, that of course is why people go to the bible, Because it does not give good moral advice, but is so completely ambiguous, so that you can give it any meaning you want, but then claim that the bible supports your views.
@Fernapple exactly! Like most legal documents, there is enough wiggle room to fit an elephant through. One need only look at the hundreds of “sects” within each religion, all of the sure they have found the magic key. From buggy driving Amish, to snake handling Pentecostals, to Branch Dividians. They are all working off the same script.
had a preacher try to tell me once that the King James version of the text was the only "scriptural" and "true" rendering of gods word. he was way gone crazy.
For truly it say. Doth it excel the spirit, which is the way of the God your Lord, as is it found, as the dog sniff his behind, more better than the man. For surely is it writ in ye olde funny language.