![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, the biblical writer switches the entire story around to say that it was rebellious divine beings against YHWH who had sex with women, and their offspring were not glorious kings, but violent giants (whom we come across in the Exodus and Conquest narratives).Even though they were punished into subterranean waters by the Babylonian god Marduk, they were nevertheless hailed as pre-flood cultural heroes in Babylon and Babylonian kings claimed to be descended from the apkallus. Genesis 6-8 as a whole is thus a variation of Mesopotamian flood stories that go something like this: divine beings known as apkallus, possessors of great knowledge, had sex with women, produced semi-divine offspring, and shared their supernatural knowledge with humanity.This supernatural interpretation of Genesis 6:1-4 is reflected in books like I Enoch. Genesis 6:1-4 is thus given as the set up and reason for the flood story in Genesis 6-8. angels) crossing that boundary between the supernatural and natural world, having sex with women, and fathering a race of giants known as the Nephilim (who later show up in the Exodus and Conquest narratives…more on that later). The story in Genesis 6:1-4 about the “sons of God” having sex with the “daughters of men” and fathering the Nephilim is about divine beings (i.e. ![]() Heiser’s take on Genesis 6-11 can be summarized in the following way: Genesis 6:1-4 to Genesis 11: From the Nephilim to Babel ![]()
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