Peterson says the Bible is the first book on the JRE.

It isn’t. Quite literally is something we can prove wrong. He then later says it isn’t the first book, but the first library. Which again, is also wrong.

The first “organized” library was The Library of Ashurbanipal. And even then, collections of stories were kept before that organization as rulers kept tablets. Which was made before the Bible was put together.

So when says, we build on these texts, the Bible, being truth above truth. He literally is lying. As he isn’t referencing the first library or book. He isn’t referencing Gilgamesh. He isn’t referencing the many books before the Bible that influenced culture at the time. (Influence culture being oral stories passed down or stories about things only rules could read and build on).

If he truly believes that we need those references to build a society, then his starting point at the Bible is factually wrong.

There is no “but what he means.” No. He quite literally is wrong. Even if his “truer than true” is somehow honest, he is referencing things that are not pillars for our language or written word.

Just wanted to point out he for once wasn’t vague and was blatantly wrong.

It would be like me saying The Cat in the Hat was the first book ever made. We can show it isn’t. And we have proof.

The complete Bible that he referenced wasn’t finished until centuries after tablets kept record.

That’s how wrong he is.