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the Bible
To start, don't think of it as verbatim. The Bible was taken from stories of G-D. If you tried to tell a story now, how different do you think it would be in 4000 years. They are stories with morals. This being the basis for law. The object is to pass along what a god would want from man. Look at the different versions of the Greek and Roman gods, or even the Norse gods. The stories are not completely accurate but you know Zeus was the bad ass big daddy of the Greeks. Odin for the Norse.
As with Odin you could enter Valhalla by dying in battle. To the Jew it is to be a good person and follow G-D's law. The whole idea of the Bible is to be a good person. The Bible helps guide us on what we see as the right path.
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