Life after death?

[Jenny A]

Trickery is another thing Genesis has in common with folk lore and myth. Oh wait . . . .

The culture of the people who wrote Genesis valued trickery as being clever and wise, even moral.
But it's not like Hollywood filmmakers are trying to tell us that the secret to success is to shoot enough people and have sex with the nearest woman.

Exactly, the moral culture of the people who wrote Genesis is rather different from ours (to put it mildly) and consequently the morals of the god they invented are rather different from ours too. Greek myth and other myths share this with the OT in that they exemplify the culture and morality of their time and place as do the gods they invent.

Hollywood does not invent a god to match it's dubious morals. But then it's not supposed to be a collection of holy films.