one of the things that you can't say about the Old Testament authors was that they were naive they're not naive now the great Heroes of the Old Testament Corpus they're not good people when they start like they might have an upward striving instinct or a calling let's say or a prod of conscience but they do what they can to fight it and they suffer along the way and they produce an awful lot of Misery the human characters in the Old Testament are very realistic they're very multi-dimensional now the same can be said for the characterization of God