Why is There Death and Suffering if God is all Loving

[Gilrandir]

Just a note.
Since we are talking about strictly OT, we cannot be talking about Christians. You do not have Christians until you have the NT.
To square anything in the OT with the teachings of Christ, it would have to meet (at minimum) the test of the Good Samaritan; perhaps that could be done with a few passages.
IMO keeping the OT around is to provide an excuse for vengeance and desire that Christ leaves little or no recourse to.

IMO, since writing of OT and NT is separated by a couple of thousands years, the original language and protagonists those volumes have less right to be considered one book than, say, The Silmarillion, LOTR and The Hobbit.