Judaism ultimately represents itself as an integrated religion with a clear cut set of internally agreed upon teachings transmitted together throughout its history. Likewise, its scriptures (the Tanakh / Old Testament) are represented as for the most part being one united text with an underlying unity.
But despite these claims, the various notable events and characters described in Genesis 1-11 (—for instance, the Creation, the lives of Adam & Eve and Cain & Abel, the Flood, the Tower of Babel, etc.—) receive virtually no mention whatsoever throughout the rest of the text.
If Judaism really is and has been an integrated religion, shouldn’t the latter 98+% of its scriptures make a significant number of references to at least some of these important early world events and people?
And being that this isn’t the case, doesn’t it seem like the text as a whole is a merging of various writings from various sources and time periods, and essentially the result of various people’s attempts to piece together the remnants of a religion’s teachings that we actually do not and probably cannot know much about today?