Ignoring biblical errancy

Have you ever noticed the author's note at the begining of a textbook encouraging readers to report any errors or inaccuracies they discover? Have you ever noticed that in the 2nd edition the errors been corrected?

Has anyone ever seen such a request in a religious work?

You would think that in a field so obsessed with truth and inerrancy that the author/publisher would welcome constructive criticism and make the necessary corrections immediatly, but I've never seen religious publishers interested in anything but supressing criticism. They're more concerned with belief than truth.

Eg: Biblical scholars have known for centuries that Yam Suph was correctly translated "sea of reeds", Yet the mistranslation "Red Sea" has persisted from the 1st edition of the King James translation.

Christians are, apparently, unconcerned with accuracy as long as the body of faithful remain so.

Christians are, apparently, unconcerned with accuracy as long as the body of faithful remain so.

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WHEW! For a while there I thought you were going to make some sweeping charecterization about ALL Christians.

There are very few such issues that have not been discovered, researched, and conveyed by honest Jewish and Christian scholars, yealding a daunting array of well annotated editions of the Torah/Petateuch.

Parenthetically, see Jonah 2:5. Issues are rarely as simplistic as they first appear.

NetDoc: OK, you've got me. Mea culpa!

Just keeping you honest, Bro.

Well, Islam welcomes it. Problem is, no one has found any mistakes yet.

Or are contradictions &c supressed or politely ignored?

I'm not familiar enough with the Quran to point to any examples but, inasmuch as it's a homogenous work by a single author, you'd expect to find considerable consistency.