I didn't even realize this, but the bible started 1500 years before Jesus. It wasn't written down, but stories passed from person to person. No wonder it's such a joke. Ever play that game where people in a line tell a story to the person next to them? Well imagine that over hundreds of years.
https://www.biblica.com/resources/bible-faqs/when-was-the-bible-written/
"The writings of the thirty or so other contributors to the Old Testament span a thousand years! They recount the times and messages from Moses’ successor, Joshua, to the last of the Old Testament prophets, Malachi, who wrote his little tract around 450 BC."
It's highly likely that many of the stories in the O.T. was plagiarized from the cuneiform tablets. Abraham came from Mesopotamia and when he left to create his own cult, he brought with him many aspects of the old Gods and their stories. The OT is rife with plurality of the God(s) but told today in a singular form from the perspective of monotheism.
Prior to the creation of the totalitarian religious ideology of the Jews, spirituality was a personal experience where the individual could find commonalities with many different Gods and reach a higher spiritual plane. The Jews created this idea that there was only 1 God who, as it would turn out, was a total dickhole and wiped us humans out in disgust of the behavior of its 'creation', or the creation of what came from the Elohim breeding with female humans and the offspring that came from it.
Funny thing about the Elohim taking the daughters of man was how certain practices from that event are still practiced to this day. In Judaism, Catholicism, and Islam, covering of the head to hide the hair from the Elohim is still practiced to this day. However, the Muslims went overboard with this practice and now use it to claim they are doing it to protect the women from male who spontaneously rape females.
Prior to this new totalitarian cult, women played a very important role in our spiritual wellbeing. The High Priestess was closer to the spiritual world than the male due to their innate desire for compassion and was very important in helping males to reach a higher spiritual wellbeing. When Abraham began laying the groundwork, the female was responsible for all the worlds trouble and was to be punished for a lifetime of this new misery.
Strangely enough, in Greek mythology, when Zeus was creating man, he noticed that this creation was doing too good and advancing quickly. Zeus, being the trolling God that he was, decided that Man needed a challenge, so he gave to us Pandora, the first human female, and what Zeus described as the
Beautiful Evil. The similarities of the female in the two mythologies I find to be interesting.