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A large portion of the Pentateuch boils down to: > Some people came to the chief with a conflict. He went into a special tent, "communed with the storm-god",
by InitialLastName 5y ago
A large portion of the Pentateuch boils down to:
> Some people came to the chief with a conflict. He went into a special tent, "communed with the storm-god", and came out with some new rules for how to manage a tribe of herders that has grown beyond Dunbar's number.
Repeat that, mix in an origin story, some king lists, and tribal-unification propaganda and (modulo some path dependency) you'll have a book that people will be treating as the literal truth 2500 years later.
- x3iv130f 5y agoI would phrase the Bible as a whole to be about something entirely different then what you have described. It is the description of a people's experience of their God, stretching across thousands of years and dozens of generations. Reading it gives the feeling that you have lived many many lifetimes seeing cities, dynasties, and empires rise and fall. Who that God is, is something puzzled throughout and not done justice by comparison to any single nature spirit or polytheistic deity.