The Diverse Audiences of the Old Testament

The Old Testament is very unlike the Quran, which has a much wider range of types of literature. It makes it very hard to think of it as just a kind of divine revelation," he says. The Psalms are clearly aimed at people worshiping in the temple; they're there to be used in worship, for the most part anyway. There's only a very few passages like the Ten Commandments, which are said to be given by God. Most of it seems to be consciously from human authors,. reflecting on God and a relational God to Israel and the world.