Have you read any one of those tales that did not make the final cut?Selected stories.
Mad stuff, at first glance but it all depends if you take it literally - as Evanglists do, or read them as allegory, which i prefer.
Was Jonah swallowed by a whale?
Probably not and i'm afraid there's no talking snake, either. Sorry 'bout that.
But while Evangelical groups lobby for their cause in America and Ultra-Orthodox Jews adhere to their avowed intent to claim Israel for themselves, there will be no 'peace on earth' or any manna of aquiring it at all.