I will say one thing about contemplating rewriting the Bible as mythological tales, it really makes you appreciate how much the Bible wasn\u2019t originally written as mythological tales. Like not in the sense of \u201cthey really believed it\u201d so much as in the sense of \u201cthis predates the idea of dividing writing into genres, at all\u201d.
Like, there\u2019s mythological tales mixed with national history and geneaology but that\u2019s kind of normal for a tribal religious corpus. There\u2019s tediously detailed economic and shipbuilding records for what would have been pretty ancient history even to its original audience, but that\u2019s 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.
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