The Bible's Model of Communication

The deepest model of the Bible’s form of communication has two forms.

Form A: God speaks, someone hears.

Form B: God speaks, a prophet (Moses, Isaiah, Jesus) hears, a prophet speaks to the people who hear.

The primary mode of divine revelation, then, is oral and aural, speaking and listening/hearing. Which is why in the Hebrew Bible “hear” is a term that d…