Fascinating...do you have any use for any of that other Bible stuff?
Not really, I consider it about 10% history, 20% philosophy, 30% fantasy, and 40% vague stuff that has been interpreted 1000 different ways, hence, that many denominations from the different versions of basically the same literary work. I've heard some people even think that a large guy in a white robe, with a long white beard actually made a quill pen appear from out of the sky, and wrote it all down on paper. Of course, I learned in Religion 101, that all of it is from oral traditions that finally were set down on some sort of writing material many, many years after the events were supposed to have happened. And later, other people without a clue, or a way to get one, fought over which parts of it to include, and which parts to exclude. Then, it was translated a few times, picking up nuances along the way, and even in the English language, there are many versions of it, depending on who was holding the lever on the printing press.
So, while I have trouble taking passages like, "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence" (1 Tim 2:11-12) seriously, I realize that all is subject to current interpretation. I expect that before very long, someone will interpret away all of the anti-gay stuff, when it no longer shocks people to find that there are homosexual people in the world.