/lit/ - Literature

>>7142381
cuz she was being salty

God had one simple rule for survival

The Pentateuch is full of origin stories and folk etymologies to keep the interest of the intended audience and to show that God was immanent in the world around them and their daily lives. The salt pillars in the area were tall and vaguely humanoid, so people told tales about how they were people who got turned into salt pillars, until it became a common/famous story. So the editors/writers of the OT smushed that story into their narrative to explain something that everyone knew about and show that everything in Israel was basically a living piece of history and a testament to God's interactions with them.

If you read the OT there are a thousand things like this. This famous well everyone knows called Doo-Del is called Doo-Del because it was where Abraham dood'ed (struggled) with El (god)!! LOOK WE EXPLAINED IT!!

The Old Testament is composed of several textual traditions woven together by a series of editors, and the older ones, often deliberately preserved because they were the most popular or familiar traditions or even important for bureaucratic reason, can sometimes betray ideas that even the post-exilic editors would have found a little strange on the face of things. This is the source of most of the weird shit in there - people wrestling with angels, the double creation of mankind, people laughing at and doubting God, God being an unbelievable asshole. The pillars of salt story was kept because it probably endured as an extremely popular explanation of a real geographical feature. It's hard to cut something like that out. But it has given rise to probably millennia of people going 'wow God, did you have to do that? All the bitch did was look back, jeez.' Which of course leads to endless reinterpretation under the lenses of subsequent eras, e.g. DO WHAT GOD FUCKING TELLS YOU, which is probably the original, uncomprehending intent of the original Mesopotamian-y author, who probably thought that was just a given when it came to gods, and that no one would even find the story didactic. She just a dumb bitch.

>>7142460
/thread

Nice anon.

>>7142460
Interesting read

>>7142386
So he could say in a funny accent "THAT'SA NOTTA MA WIIIIIFE!... THATS A PILLAR SALTI!!"

and then the devil gets wind of this and he's so tickled that he literally laughs his head off and god wins gg devol

>>7143543
Interesting read.

>>7143543
/thread

Nice anon.

>>7143543
topkek

>>7142460
I thought it was Atlas who shrugged

>>7142381
So Jews hearing the story could get randy about dat sweet incest pussay

>>7144361

>>7142381
Because she was nostalgic about evil, it's symbolic.

I think god was making hard pretzels at the same time.