It’s not at all clear but one can be certain of one thing: there’s a reason for the biblical references...Was there a hint...for example...that the Bible is attempting to put into a better light...roaming cattle barons and rustlers...itinerant minstrels and organ-repair-persons...and traveling metallurgical instructors?...All of this is very curious.

Like why the same name for Cain’s fifth generation son as Noah’s father?...Admittedly...Adam and his lineage were never at a lost for strange and bewildering names...but why would they choose common names?...Did Noah’s grand daddy want to name his first-born son after a distant cousin who was known for his seventy and sevenfold protection plan?...The old rich uncle scenario?

And while asking questions which are unlikely to ever be definitively answered...one might also ask why it is that in the creation of the world and mankind...everything was attributed to god...but that beginning in Chapter two (verse 4) the attributes are to the Lord God or to the Lord...Why is that?...Did God change his name because of a problems in another state?...Was he running from something?...Are the weird and paradoxical questions raised by the Bible never going to end?...