It would be difficult to discuss with ancients the concepts of divine intervention, because in their worldview deity was too integrated into the cosmos to intervene in it. For the most part, deity is on the inside, not the outside. All experience was religious experience, all law was spiritual in nature, all duties were duties to the gods, all events had deity as their cause. Life was religion and religion could not be compartmentalized within life...

In the ancient world something came into existence when it was separated out as a distinct entity, given a function, and given a name.

-Dr. John Walton, Ancient Near Eastern Thought