IS THE BOOK OF GENESIS WEIRD?

The stories in the book of Genesis are not history, assures researcher and author Lev Roemmerbet (“Are the Gospels a Bunch of Lies”?), who in order to analyze the book of Genesis went into the ancient religions and traditions of Egypt, of Mesopotamia, and of Canaan.
In writing this book Roemmerbet divided his analysis in four parts, and all of them have the common components of magic, hermaphroditism, polytheism, murdering,
cheating, and fun to the laws of nature. At least one of these social components is in almost each of the stories about the Gods of Genesis, and of the family the writers created to give beginning to the Hebrew culture.
In this book Roemmerbet analyzes how God created the heavens and the earth in six and a half days, and not in seven days, as some people still say. God made homosexuality in the first creation, and the Lord God, another deity, formed man [Adam] in the second creation and cloned a woman [Eve] in the third creation.
To make the first creation God felt unable to do the job alone, then asked some colleagues for help. Later the Lord God made Adam and Eve, who were born adults like Eve’s hermaphrodite sons and their descendants.
Due that Eve and Adam decided to acquire knowledge, the Lord God divorced them right after he had married them, and in a misogynic act, he ordered the woman: ”Your desire should be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” (Doesn’t it seem that this part of the myth was written by men to benefit men?).

The Gods believed that human beings, animals and plants were corrupt, and then decided to kill them and to destroy the earth. (It was easier for the Gods to destroy the earth and everything that was on it, than to eliminate the sins that the Gods themselves have created). In Noah’s flood (almost entirely copied from the Mesopotamian myth known as Gilgameth), the Gods destroyed the earth and all that they had created and made. Only Noah, his family and some animals survived. Correction: an olive tree survived more than 350 days under the water, and one of Noah’s birds discovered it, picked up some of its leaves and brought them to Noah.
After the Lord felt sorry because he had destroyed everything, he made two important things: first, he placed a rainbow in the firmament to remind him that he is a mass-murderer; and second, he promised not to play with water again.

The character Abram entered in scene with his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot. Both males were in the business of slave trafficking. The Almighty destroyed the mythic Sodom and Gomorra, and the Almighty God changed the name Abram for Abraham, just before the Prepuce Covenant was introduced in the myth. Later the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken and Sarah had Isaac.

Isaac, his wife Rebekah and his younger son Jacob conspired to still Esau the blessings of Isaac’ soul. Jacob had to escape to Padan Aram (Syria) where he stayed 20 years, and during which he married his uncle Laban’s two daughters and their two respective female slaves. Tricky Jacob said to his cousins-wives, God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.” Jacob wrestled with God and defeated him; then, defeated --God changed Jacob’s name for Israel.
Jacob and his cheated twin brother Esau met after 20 years of not seen each other, and the Dinah-Gate garnished another part of this myth.
Joseph, Jacob’s eleventh son, entered in the myth as a gossiper. Later he was sold by his brothers and taken to Egypt as a slave, where he was jailed, but “the Lord was with him.” His abilities to interpret dreams helped Joseph to become the Lord of all Egypt after he forecasted seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. As Egypt Prime Minister (sort of), Joseph saved the world of dying of hunger by providing food to the Egyptians and to the people of other lands. Before this, Pharaoh had assigned Joseph a wife with whom he procreated two sons, whom later Jacob adopted. Jacob’ sons went from Canaan (where they used to live) to Egypt to buy food. Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him (Good for a Hollywood movie). Later, Joseph made himself known to his brothers and invited them to settle in Egypt; which they did. Been in Egypt Jacob formed the Twelve Tribes of Israel,” and “predicted” what the head of each Tribe will be; then he died and was brought to Machpelah, where his grandfather Abraham was buried. Joseph, the world savior, died and nobody knows where his body was taken.
“Is the Book of Genesis Weird?” was written in a simple, understandable and pleasant way. It’s a book to enjoy.