I think we're increasingly talking past each other here. :-) I think the Torah and Hebrew Bible in general is a response to divinity, and that Jesus' life was lived out in response to that same sense of divinity. I think that Jesus understood God and his own life and purpose in the context of the Hebrew Bible. I don't think I have to see the Torah as being literally written by God in order to make sense of that.

It occurs to me that I've probably given you the impression that I find the Torah worthless, just because I like to argue so much. ;-)