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...

wife-sister stories in Genesis, or to the recurring account of the return of a messenger, particularly one bearing disastrous news.28 One of the advantages of this tool over the form-critical method is in its eschewing a diachronic analysis which would establish a primary text which serves as a prototype for all the other appearances of the same scene. Since biblical research of the past few decades has not succeeded in providing greater consensus regarding the relative dating of narrative texts,

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