How does anyone take jewish history seriously, when it is so

>>3268189
>in the bronze age
Jews are very much iron age people.

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>>3268189
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While you're right about the general mythology of things in Genesis, like the garden of Eden or the flood myth, it's much more complicated than that.
The Myths of people like Abraham or other are probably rooted in older Hebrew myth, although it is interesting how Abraham is said to be a resident of Ur and not a Canaanite, so one may argue that Abraham may be a story the Babylonians had for the history of the Hebrews, much like how they had histories for other races.
As time goes on and the history of the Jewish peoples comes closer to the time of the OT's writing, history stops being mythological and starts being more historical.
If it helps, think of it in terms of the Greek canon, like so:
>Genesis=Hesiod's Cosmogony and the Homeric Hymns
>Exodus=Heroic tales of Europa or Kadmos, or Perseus
>Judges=The Iliad, a mythologized history
>Samuel/Early Kings=Herodotus
>Later Kings, Jehu and such=Thucydides

>>3268189
like?