Muslims are taught that Muhammad had no creative role in the production of their holy book. He acted simply as a secretary who wrote down what was dictated to him by Allah via the angel Gabriel. They would be outraged by the suggestion that the Qur’an was in any way a human book. But Christians should have no qualms about accepting that the Bible was written by people. Its books were written by a variety of authors at different times in history and bear the marks of the personalities and eras that