narratives, it is not successful in explaining the differences between the wide variety of texts which fall under the rubric of theophany narratives. Whatever their antecedents may have been, it seems that the biblical writers have created something quite new and different. Using dream reports, mythic depictions of theophany and the upheaval of nature, promises of divine guidance, and prophetic oracles, the literary genius of the biblical narrative developed a new way of discussing the interaction