Voice of God
religious concept
In the Abrahamic religions, the voice of God is a communication from God to human beings through sound with no known physical source.
In Rabbinic Judaism, such a voice is known as a bat kol (Hebrew: בַּת קוֹל baṯ qōl, literally "daughter of voice"), a "heavenly or divine voice which proclaims God's will or judgment". It differed from prophecy in that God had a close relationship with the prophet, while the bat kol could be heard by any individual or group regardless of their level of connection to God.
Hebrew Bible
In the Hebrew Bible, the characteristic attributes of the voice of God are the invisibility of the speaker and a certain remarkable quality in the sound, regardless of its strength or weakness.
A sound proceeding from some invisible source was considered a heavenly voice, since the mass revelation at Sinai, as recorded in Deuteronomy 4:12 and referenced in Psalm 50:6, was given in that way: "Ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice". In the Deuteronomic narrative, the manifestation of God to the Israelites occurs exclusively through auditory means rather than visual. Even the prophet Ezekiel, who is recorded as the recipient of many visions, "heard a voice of one that spoke". Similarly, Elijah recognized God by a "still, small voice", and a voice addressed him. God's voice is recorded as coming from the heavens, from Jerusalem, and Zion, with God's voice heard in thunder and the roar of the sea, as well.
In later Jewish sources
The phrase bat kol appears in many Talmudic stories to represent a heavenly or divine voice to human beings.
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