Some of the bible, like the holy rules/laws are based upon teaching uncivilized people how to keep from fucking and dying horribly. Like honor thy elders tends to keep incest down and help the spread of knowledge (by keeping those who lived it alive). Rules on food were necessary to prevent bad diseases. Cleansing rituals, again, to prevent disease.
Some of the bible, like the holy rules/laws are based upon teaching uncivilized people how to keep from fucking and dying horribly. Like honor thy elders tends to keep incest down and help the spread of knowledge (by keeping those who lived it alive). Rules on food were necessary to prevent bad diseases. Cleansing rituals, again, to prevent disease.
Before writing, old people with long memories, and who were good at remembering in general, WERE the databases.