I write this to encourage you to dig deeper, Anon, and to expand your mind. Try to see things for what they are. I intend no mockery of GOD nor his sacred words. My issue is with the product of man's hands and man's will. Man's will has twisted everything up, but you can untwist it. I encourage you to pray for wisdom and insight. Help your fellow man by learning all that you can to guide you. Dig.
The meaning of life, according to this anon, is to work the puzzles and solve the mysteries of our existence. We exist to discover all that can be know about all the things about us and all things in the universe.
For example, what if I told you the Bible was a selection of family tales which recorded cultural information and family lineages, land records, wisdom followed and outcomes achieved of the royal familes of the middle east, mostly the jewish ones Would you believe it's basically the record of successes and failures of certain ways of living, based on subjective moral standards, and was recorded for future generations. It contains matters of settled law, and wisdom they could look back upon, some very insightful and some completely wacky. It is also one of our strongest links to the distant past. It's a tiny, microscopic, filtered, manipulated view of of the origin of humanity and the populating of the Isreal area of the middle east, according to the early historians. Oral traditions were written down and preserved for the first time and collected.
Genesis is the collection of all the best and oldest Holy information about where we come from. It's the Jew's origin story, and in Act II, one of the most famous jews, Jesus, becomes God. The Kings (also called Judges, and some were women) are the leaders of the people, usually, basically their POTUS. It's a lot like Game of Thrones though too, because some are born into a position and some are elected. Times change, and then change again.
Let's examine
The Song of Deborah is found in Judges 5:2–31 and is a victory hymn, sung by Deborah and Barak, about the defeat of Canaanite adversaries by some of the tribes of Israel. Biblical scholars have generally identified the Song as one of the oldest parts of the Bible, dating somewhere in the 12th century BC, based on its grammar and context. Basically, some jews were being treated poorly by a neighboring king. They went to Deborah, and asked for her help. She commanded 10K troops to attack the neighbor. The leader of the troops was scared and asked Deborah to go with him. She went and rightfully took the victory on her own behalf, and that of all women. The neighboring king escaped, but was killed in his sleep by a woman that night, allegedly. It's a great reminder that women are just as capable as men of all things.
The Bible, is filled with many manuscripts or personal manifestos from one jew back to his family, or from a king jew to his people. Imagine how an Amish family keeps up with their kin, though the mail, with letters. Your family papers including titles and deeds are not unlike those old letters. Your letters are different from your neighbors, because you're different peoples.
Maybe your neighbor has foreskin? Foreskin removal = ritual tribal marking. Remember, the jews were divided by tribes, and each tribe had a diffferent "job" in the culture. Judah's tribe were the tribe of leaders, the Judges. Levi's people were the priests (not the leaders) and were in charge of the temples and the "ministering" duties, including circumcision. Dan's people were seafaring and trade. They lost their lands to neighboring Assryians (think Syria) and had to scatter. He was pretty pissed and wanted revenge on the Assyrians. Gen 49:17, "Let Dan be a serpent by the roadside, a horned viper by the path, That bites the horse's heel, so that the rider tumbles backward." Dan is basically now an asshole, and too much of a coward to attack directly, so he attacks the horse, sneaky fucker.
The Tribe of Dan knew magic and potions also, having learned things in far flung ports. Wayfaring strangers were probably tribe of Dan folks heading out into the wilderness to try to establish a new home in foreign lands. They'd probably had to be either exceedingly nice and useful to earn some land, or sneaky and underhanded depending on the kind of foreigners you're dealing with. Is there a huge leap between prayers and magical incantations? If I read you the Lord's Prayer in Hebrew, you might think I was "speaking magic".
My point is this. Read everything twice. Study something important on this day which God has given us. May you all be blessed.