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If I am a witness to an accident and I heard more than you, I would tell it,
I'm really fond of the accident reporting metaphor for contradictions in The Books. Ir reduces the entire The Books to things men wrote from a personal point of view.
No claim that there's any sort of divine inspiration of the work, no omniscient history, no absolute Truth, nothing of any greater importance than any other work of philosophy produced since some guy in Ur told the guy who stubbed his toe to 'suck it up, Marduk doesn't like wimps.'

It greatly aids any desire to keep the litany from being legislated, because, hey, it's just a few guys' ideas and imperfect memories of events that may or may not have happened as described.