So there is little to no leading away from the originals until it started getting translated into other languages from translated versions.
But also consider the evolution of languages. There is as much difference between the english of now and that of Chaucer than between the latin of the fall of the roman empire and that of the start of the roman republic. In other words they cannot comprehend each other. And that is about one THIRD of the time between when those bible stories originated and when they were put down on goat skin. So even with perfect memorization (hah!), most terms would have changed meaning or have their meaning completely lost and replaced by something _thought_ equivalent.
Properly done, theology is a science (an ordered body of knowledge obtained from the application of logic to axioms)
A set of axioms that starts with 0=1.
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982