Historians of reddit, what are common misconceptions that, when corrected, would completely change our view of a certain time period?

The current bible was vastly edited by the catholic church to mandate their ideology. One example was the way they translated the stories of the Egyptians enslaving the Israelis. After their esape of the Egyptians through the red sea, they would have still been in eyptian territory as Egyptians had conquered all throughout the east. The translators apparently took the "reed" sea from the translated Hebrew language to red sea just by taking out the e. The correct translation was actually to be the nile river. Plus a lot of books meant to be In the bible is excluded because of edits made by church. The Ethiopian bible has 81 books apart of their orthodox bible and many of which are seemed as controversial in the standard bible of today; which only has 66 books.

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