Never forget that Yahweh subsumed the roles of both hero and villain when his cult enforced monotheism on a polytheistic religion.
It’s like if we remembered Odin as the only god of the Norse, but in the new Sagas he did literally everything the other gods did and most moral commentary beyond “obey or die” was lost as a result.
It’s in all the Abrahmic texts…
Never forget that Yahweh subsumed the roles of both hero and villain when his cult enforced monotheism on a polytheistic religion.
It’s like if we remembered Odin as the only god of the Norse, but in the new Sagas he did literally everything the other gods did and most moral commentary beyond “obey or die” was lost as a result.