I will say one thing about contemplating rewriting the Bible as mythological tales, it really makes you appreciate how much the Bible wasn’t originally written as mythological tales. Like not in the sense of “they really believed it” so much as in the sense of “this predates the idea of dividing writing into genres, at all”.

Like, there’s mythological tales mixed with national history and geneaology but that’s kind of normal for a tribal religious corpus. There’s tediously detailed economic and shipbuilding records for what would have been pretty ancient history even to its original audience, but that’s not really unprecedented either.

But then it wanders off into like, a bunch of praise songs, and then self-help, and then a bunch of sexy slow jams, and a few biography/collection of speeches, and then a bunch of collected correspondence, and then the whole thing ends with a fucking trip report.