I agree Jaynes' hypothesis is flawed, but how can you say with such confidence that:
> [...] I'd argue there's no distinction at all [...] the characters are perfectly relatable to modern humans
It can be that you find them relatable due to modern translations, or by projecting your own modern understanding of them. The whole of Jaynes' hypothesis is that they are quite alien and unrelatable, and that they don't function like you and me, and that our reading of them has been wrong.
The probable flaw in Jaynes' thought is that I don't think there is a way to test this supposition, other than time travel.
> [...] I'd argue there's no distinction at all [...] the characters are perfectly relatable to modern humans
It can be that you find them relatable due to modern translations, or by projecting your own modern understanding of them. The whole of Jaynes' hypothesis is that they are quite alien and unrelatable, and that they don't function like you and me, and that our reading of them has been wrong.
The probable flaw in Jaynes' thought is that I don't think there is a way to test this supposition, other than time travel.