Encountering the Divine: Theophany in Biblical Narrative (Biblia.com)

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Encountering the Divine: Theophany in Biblical Narrative is George W. Savran’s highly regarded and much sought after monograph about the narratives on humans encountering God, as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. In general terms “theophany” refers to all divine appearances but mostly those occurring as visions, dreams, or other revelations. However, in this study the focus is on scriptural...

INTRODUCTION This study is a result of thinking about the unusual ways in which contact between the human and the divine is addressed in the Bible. More than ten years ago, in a course entitled ‘Strange Encounters in the Bible’, I began to examine some of the texts discussed here. What at first seemed to be simply a collection of odd stories gradually took shape in my mind as reflections of an overarching pattern of communication between God and man/woman in the Bible. I am not speaking of techniques

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