Revelation is frequently defined in opposition to reason: Reason is the natural exercise of human mental capacities in search of knowledge; revelation is when we bypass these faculties and gain knowledge by way of a miracle. Since at least the time of the Church Fathers, it's been argued that just this is what distinguishes the Bible from the works of philosophers such Plato or Hobbes.
A case can be made that this distinction between reason and revelation is already present in the New Testament. But it's hard to say this about the Hebrew Bible (or "Old Testament"), which was composed centuries earlier, at a time when human wisdom and insight were everywhere understood to be the gift of a god.
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