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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...

Chapter 4 HUMAN RESPONSES TO THEOPHANY The human response to theophany is perhaps the most complex and most varied of all the components of the theophany type-scene. It is at this point in the theophany that we see the first direct interaction between the protagonist and YHWH, and in most cases the beginnings of what will be an ongoing relationship between the two. While such a response is always forthcoming in the texts under discussion, it may take place during the theophany itself, after the Deity
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