If you are going to take some book and assign some grand significance to it and then analyze it to death, adding sub-plots and deciding some parts are real and others are metaphor, pick a more recent book, or one that hasn't been dicked with by so many different people and groups over several centuries.

There's a reason why the Bible was the first book printed with the newly invented printing press, and remains the most widely printed book in history. And that reason has nothing to do with "word of God", or "truth".

I belong on eroding granite, among the pines.