Editing Revelation (section)

==Methods==
===Verbal===
Some people hold that God can communicate with people in a way that gives direct, [[propositional]] content: This is termed ''verbal revelation''. [[Orthodox Judaism]] and some forms of Christianity hold that the first five books of [[Moses]] were dictated by God in such a fashion.<ref>
{{cite journal 
|url         = https://coth.ui.ac.ir/article_15713.html
|title       = تطبیق انگارۀ وحی در عهدین و قرآن کریم
|journal = الهیات تطبیقی
|date = 20 March 2012
|volume = 3
|issue = 7
|trans-title = Applying the concept of revelation in the New Testament and the Holy Quran
|language    = fa
|access-date = 22 December 2024
}}
</ref>

[[Isaiah]] writes that he received his message through visions, where he would see [[YHWH]], the God of Israel, speaking to angelic beings that surrounded him. Isaiah would then write down the dialogue exchanged between YHWH and the angels.{{cn|date=January 2022}} This form of revelation constitutes the major part of the text of the [[Book of Isaiah]]. The same formula of divine revelation is used by other prophets throughout the [[Tanakh]], such as Micaiah in [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20kings%2022:19-22&version=HCSB 1 Kings 22:19–22].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt09a22.htm |title=1 Kings 22 / Hebrew – English Bible / Mechon-Mamre |publisher=Mechon-mamre.org |access-date=2012-01-27}}</ref><ref>
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|url         = https://www.porseman.com/article/%D9%88%D8%AD%D9%8A-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D9%87%D8%AF-%D8%B9%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%82/118765
|title       = وحی در عهد عتیق
|trans-title = Revelation in the Old Testament
|language    = fa
|access-date = 22 December 2024
}}
</ref>

===Non-verbal propositional===
One school of thought holds that revelation is non-verbal and non-literal, yet it may have propositional content. People were divinely inspired by God with a message but not in a verbal-like sense.<ref>
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|url         = https://ensani.ir/fa/article/6741/%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%BE%D8%B0%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C-%DA%AF%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C
|title       = اثبات پذیری گزاره‌های دینی
|trans-title = The provability of religious propositions
|language    = fa
|access-date = 22 December 2024
}}
</ref>

[[Rabbi]] [[Abraham Joshua Heschel]] wrote, "To convey what the prophets experienced, the Bible could either use terms of descriptions or terms of indication.  Any description of the act of revelation in empirical categories would have produced a caricature. That is why all the Bible does is to state that revelation happened; how it happened is something they could only convey in words that are evocative and suggestive."<ref>God in Search of Man</ref>