Take the 2-minute tour ×  Why do people say Hashem wrote the
torah, shouldn't it be He created it, made it, edited it, etc?
share|improve this question  2 Answers 2  Hashem is the author
of the Torah. Generally the author of a work writes it. Actually
nowadays the author generally types it, nevertheless, we still
say so and so "wrote" it. Who transcribed it or how they did so
is incidental to who authored it.  In other words saying Hashem
wrote the Torah is just a generic way to convey in English that
Hashem is its author.  share|improve this answer Very Well said
Yirmeyahu –  SimchasTorah Apr 18 '10 at 5:11 Another example:
Stephen Hawking doesn't "write" his books, though that's the
word we use. –  Charles Koppelman Aug 6 '12 at 16:16  Well he
dictated it to Moshe who wrote it,But it already existed in
Shamayim as we know based on the story of Moshe going up to get
it it by Kabbolos Hatorah and we also know that it was the
blueprint for the world as we know Hashem looked into the torah
and created the worl