On the subject of Hell and Salvation

[fredd bear]

The Torah is the mythology of a tribe of illiterate bronze age goat herders

The book you link us to indicates that this is wrong. The Torah was written centuries after the Bronze Age.

True enough, but it was based on oral mythology, which was much older..

A Jewish answer:

Dear Rabbi,
I believe that the "Five Books of Moses" comprise the Torah. How and when do we believe we received the Torah? Was it given to us directly from G
Dear Michael,
G-d gave the Torah to Moses and the Jewish people at Mount Sinai 3,316 years ago. This was seven weeks after the Exodus from Egypt, on the 6th day of the month Sivan, in the year 2448 of the Jewish calendar. On that day, G-d revealed Himself to the entire Jewish people (which included some 600,000 adult men, in addition to women, children and the aged) and declared to them the Ten Commandments. Afterwards, Moses ascended Mount Sinai where, for forty days, G-d taught him the entire Written and Oral Torah. Later, on Yom Kippur, Moses descended with the second tablets of the Ten Commandments and began to teach the people what he heard from G-d on Mount Sinai.

https://ohr.edu/1438