/lit/ - Literature

tell a good book to read. if you post some shitty thing you die, so be cautious.

This Bible's Introduction exposes some inconsistencies between the Pentateuch books found and discussed by scholars over time.
Should this be a problem for either christians or jews?
Here are some examples:
>"Hypothesis in the nineteenth century, according to which the Pentateuch (or Hexateuch) is composed of four main sources or documents that were edited or redacted together: J, E. P, and D. Each of these sources or documents is embedded in a (relatively) complete form in the current Pentateuch, and iss typified by both vocabulary and theological perspective."
>"For example, it has long been noted that chs 1-3 of Genesis twice narrate the creation of the world. People are created first in 1.27 — "So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them" — and then again in 2.7 — "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.""
>"In this story, for example, man and woman are created together (1.27) after the creation of the land animals (1.25). In contrast, the second story, in Gen 2.4-3.24, suggest that man was created (2.7), then the animals (2.19), and then woman (2.21-22). Its focus is on the creation of humanity, not of the entire physical world, and God anthropomorphically "forms" various beings, rather than creating them with the word. Thus, these are two separate stories, written by two authors, representing different worldviews about the nature of creation, humanity, and God."

What am I supposed to think about this?

>anything that cannot be experimentally verified is not worth discussing

prove me wrong protip you can't

Prove to me that reading philosophy isn't a massive waste of time.

I want to not be a brainlet and open my mind to new ideas and concepts, but all philosophy I have read has just been hundreds of pages of rambling about complete fucking nonsense.
And trying to answer questions that only mentally ill people could possibly care about, like "What is aesthetics?" or "What is the meaning of language?"

Will I ever actually learn something valuable or meaningful from reading philosophy, or is it just shit to have on your shelf to make you look "intellectual"?

Will reading philosophy and being 'patrician' just make you miserable and isolated IRL?