The fact that Christian antisemites in the American fundamentalist tradition specifically say that the Talmud is the "Jewish Bible" is an enormous absurdity and points to the deep intellectual impoverishment of their own tradition
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Yeah - and I mean, ultimately it's a genre itself; bits of wisdom from a notably wise source (Solomon, for the most part here) to be memorized as much for their cleverness as their truth.
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Or at least, a way to say something that's sort of common sense or conventional wisdom, but in a poetic and memorable way.
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You should try reading the bible while experiencing psychosis. Becomes pretty obvious that a lot of the people writing it were of the same mind.
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And when you realise that '666 the number of the beast' refers to the number of neutrons, protons and electrons in an atom of carbon 12, the singular element that is the basis of organic chemistry and all life on earth, that in the form of fossil fuels it is responsible for wars
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