[antiRepublicrat]

Catholic prelates and monks had about 1400 years to gather, control, choose, comtemplate and rework biblical era tales before Guttenberg invented the printing press.

Up until the point of collating the disparate stories into one Bible, I'll give you the vagaries of mistranslation, reinterpretation, misattribution and plain insertion of stuff people thought should be there. But afterwards, the monk scribes were EXTREMELY careful about getting every word right, often taking one year to transcribe one copy, with thorough reviews including word and letter counts in addition to proofreading.

[keats5]

"Catholic prelates and monks had about 1400 years to gather, control, choose, comtemplate and rework biblical era tales before Guttenberg invented the printing press."

Which is why the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls was so amazing. For example, the Mssianic prophecies from the Isaiah scroll remained essentially the same in these scrolls as in the vast majority of today's Bibles. Many had claimed Isaiah had been rewritten to reflect Christ's death after the fact, in an attempt to disprove it's prophetic accuracy. We now know that the earliest Isaiah scroll also describes Christ crucifiction and death with amazing accuracy, even though it was indeed written about 700 years before Christ walked the earth.

[thinktwice]

But afterwards, the monk scribes were EXTREMELY careful

After what date? I'd say it was after the church council that put the Bible together. I forget, however, the name and date of that council.