What kind of a God is in Torah?

Without the establishment of a particular divine-human relationship in the Torah—one based on loyalty to a suzerain rather than codependence—the natural reaction to the moral instruction of the New Testament is to psychologize the Great Symbiosis. This means we would imagine that God requires specific actions on our part to meet his emotional and psychological needs—that we are expected to make God happy by satisfying his craving for worship and moral punctiliousness—and that failure to do so will bring horrendous consequences. Indeed, a great many Christians today, having neglected the Torah or failed to understand it, believe exactly this, usually justified by a misinterpretation of Hosea 6:6. At the same time, however, the value of the Torah is not primarily to convey the theological fact that the God of Israel has no needs. Many worldviews already believe that God or the gods have no needs, but the Torah has value for them as well. The primary value for the Torah outside of the original context of covenant Israel is the role it plays in helping us make sense of the New Testament.—Walton and Walton, The Lost World of the Torah, 216