Indeed but it is against the backdrop of ANE cosmologies. When Moses was writing the main enemy was Canaanite Baalism and when the redactors were writing the main enemy was Babylonian Marduk. This mythopeotic practice can also be found in the Psalter (see here).

What it demonstrates is that on one side we find professors of Old Testament who have written Hebrew grammars and are well versed in scholarly works and engaged in research into these issues against whom you pit James Jordan who is who precisely?