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If over half the world spoke English when ur book was published, would u worry very much about translation/exegetical issues?

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A lot of the apparent errors, contradictions, mistranslations, scientific failings, and anachronisms are easily explained if we figure that authorship The Books is limited to human beings with no better than human understanding, planning, enlightenment and travel.

But for the most part, The Books isn't offered as 'something written a long time ago, with some interesting/cool/worthy things inside it.' IF it is the work of the Divine, then one can't just accept 'the author didn't know any better' as an apology for the Books' failings.

In that case, after factoring enough apologist factors for why the Books can have a divine inspiration, yet doesn't make sense today, we're left with a The Books that was aimed at, and only of use for, the population of the time it was published, and meaningless to us.

Either it was written with only local and contemporary knowledge, because that's all the author knew, or it was limited to local and contemporary knowledge because that's all the author wanted to convey. Neither one produces a book that's of any sort of special value to modern man.