Most of the Old Testament is stolen stories of the previous global predominate religion: Paganism. Just as aspects of the Abahamic faiths populate the world now, at one point polytheistic faiths of Paganism predominated the world. Paganism, like Christianity, can be broken down into different denominations to their respects accordingly to differentiation of specifications. The easiest three examples of this are The Flood (which hails from the ancient Sumerians), The Burning Bush (as symbolic for the Tree Of Life/Tree Of Knowledge in Paganism) and the story of David & Goliath, which is absolutely a metaphor for the faith of the new conquering the faith of the old.
To put this into perspective for you in the Middle East as to how confused and disorganized everything has gotten: Isis attacked and destroyed the historical monument in Iraq of the Temple Of Nimrud because they declared it to be a heretical abomination to their newlyfound Abahamic faith of Islam. Or to put in in plain English: The terrorist group abolished their bloodline ancient great temple to their hereditary Pagan worship, because it was heretical to Islam...and if that doesn't seem delusional, than I don't know what does...
I also find the Book Of Job to be the most honest and humane book in the entire bible, as a personal opinion and preference. I find it humbling. I also find a certain comfort in it. It's humanizing, in a way...
The Old Testament interests me more because of its historical significance. Scholars, need the Old Testament. People that do historical research. The kinds of people who are still wondering what happened to the Spear Of Destiny and several other holy relics. It's an intellectual acquired taste.
The New Testament interests me very little. Revelation, perhaps the most.
Much of what's considered to be within the realm of mundane societal standards and morality, interests me very little.
And I have even less interest in current world affairs because it only seems to surmount to the hollow, shallow, simpleness of political affairs and societal division rather than societal unification.
In truth, I should hope that religiously sworn enemies would agree to disagree and shake hands and actually get to know each other as people, differences aside, but for cultural purposes and to say that you learned something you didn't know before from the other perspective, on the approaching days and times wherein perhaps an asteroid might smack into the Earth again, totally obliterating all life from the planet. I think, or I should hope to think that, the passionate desire that all people hold in their hearts should be willing to be humbled enough to create a true peace, even for just a brief moment under such circumstances. That is the least of my hopes for a Utopia. Even if there is nonjudgmental global peace and understanding for all of a collectively 10 minutes, that will be enough for me to smile and say that me being alive to see that was worth me choosing to continue to be alive.