I'm ignorant enough to have only read the first five books (Genesis through Deuteronomy), Ecclesiastes, and a scattering of quotes from other books of the bible

I'm ignorant enough to have only read the first five books (Genesis through Deuteronomy), Ecclesiastes, and a scattering of quotes from other books of the bible. I started reading that piece of the old testament after going through some translated Sumerian/Babylonian works and commentary about the relation of the old testament to other pan-Mesopotamian theology, and I feel like it's pretty interesting from that perspective. Yahweh is clearly Enki/Ea with some aspects of Marduk sprinkled in. The flood stories are funny, because in When The Gods Instead Of Man we have a story about a bunch of gods deciding to kill all humans and one god (Ea) deciding to warn the flood hero (Atrahasis) about the flood; when all the other humans die and Atrahasis is the only one sacrificing food to the gods, the other gods realise their mistake and are thankful. In the old testament version they have to tell the same story with only one god, so the same god who wants to kill everybody also wants to save a specific person/family due to their righteousness, rather than as an act of desperation in the face of other gods' foolish plans. That whole sacrificing-food-by-burning-it thing carries over into the old testament too, with god consuming offerings in the tabernacle via flames. It also struck me how human the Sumerian/Babylonian gods were. Before creating humans they had to grow their own food, one of the gods was in charge of controlling a canal. Like, that's some mundane shit. Then you have the old testament being super unsure of how to portray god. Sometimes he seems abstract, he'll appear as a burning bush if he feels like it, sometimes he seems to consume people/offerings in flames, and a couple of times (Moses looking at his back, Jacob wrestling with him) he appears downright human. The book Who Wrote The Bible? has an interesting take on the first five books of the old testament (the "Torah of Moses") being written by at least five separate people/groups and compiled by Ezra the lawgiver. I know that some people think Ezra is entirely mythical, and there are other objections to some details of that book, but I still think it's an interesting take. It claims that the early books often repeat themselves because they're a blending of two earlier narratives meant to unify the people of Israel after a north/south divide. Since one group said that Noah sent out a dove, and one group said a raven, he just does both. There are a lot more examples of things that look like two versions of the same story spliced together. I place no religious significance in the texts, and I haven't cared enough to read more (though I might read through Jeremiah/Baruch's works at some point), but I think it's a fascinating work just due to the age. Ecclesiastes is legitimagely beautiful, and while I wouldn't say it's unparalleled for it's time (props to Lao Tzu) I think it's one of the few works of that era I've been exposed to which I found that beautiful.