Studying Hebrew stories about their god is particularly useful when juxtaposed against Greek stories about their gods. You start to notice how much their gods resemble one another, and them: jealous, capricious, arbitrary, moody, vengeful, trivial, greedy... and then you realize: Man created God in his own image.
The reverse is true for Jehovah. He created man in His image. He does not have some weird passion known only to green Martians.