The God of the Old Testament Is More Merciful Than He's Generally Made Out to Be

Abraham isn't a divine figure in any archetypal sense precisely. He has archetypal elements because he's also obviously the founder of a nation. But fundamentally he's a human being and he has the adventures and he makes the mistakes of a human being. And you really see this with it. It's good news if you regard the representation of God as somehow key to the description of being itself.