Most of my education has been gained through reading on my own, answering questions for others, and discussions. This being the latter, I'd ask for your references with regard to the Tanak.
BTW, I believe most, if not all books, have to with God and his ways. Few parts of the Bible inspire me with awe and reverence for God, more than James Gleick's Chaos, Steven Levy's Artificial Life, the poems of Rudyard Kipling, and the Dames Point Bridge in Jacksonville. For the last 3, if we are created as images of God and we can do what is portrayed and Levy's book and created by Kipling and the bridge, imagine what God can do. Gleick's book clues me in somewhat more to that.
That there is no savior but G-d:
Hoseah 13:4 "But I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.
And a little weaker - different translations than the NIV make it stronger:
Isaiah 45:21 Declare what is to be, present it-- let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me.
There are many references in the Tanak to G-d our Savior and how a man can not save himself. Let me know if you wish to see some of those, or simply read Psalms for a large number.
BTW, I believe most, if not all books, have to with God and his ways. Few parts of the Bible inspire me with awe and reverence for God, more than James Gleick's Chaos, Steven Levy's Artificial Life, the poems of Rudyard Kipling, and the Dames Point Bridge in Jacksonville. For the last 3, if we are created as images of God and we can do what is portrayed and Levy's book and created by Kipling and the bridge, imagine what God can do. Gleick's book clues me in somewhat more to that.
I respect how these inspire you more than the Bible. However, if you were going to do research on the life of Abraham Lincoln, would you only read exciting stories about Lincoln, or would you also read boring biographies? The Bible is G-d's own Word as to who He is. I will admit that you can learn a lot about Him from His creation, but He is the definitive Word. Study other things, by all means, but everything else you study will be gone when He restores the Universe as He promised. Everything you study about Him will be study that lasts forever.
I myself used to hate reading the Bible. The more I got to know Him through reading it, the more I saw of Him in it, and the more I loved it. Some parts are still boring. I hate reading geneologies. Yet, even there, sometimes He wispers things to me about Himself.
Shalom.