Title: Mythology of the Near East and Sons of God in Genesis 6:4.
University: University of Liverpool
Supervisor: Magnus Widell
Abstract:
The scholarly approach to the subject of the ancient spirituality and the Angelology to the identity of the Sons of God in OT and gods in ANE are mostly avoided in the research or explained away as religious symbolism while resorting to the use of the descriptive approach when presenting the ideas of the spiritual beings in the ANE and OT. This trend in the scholarly thought suggests to me the application of an interdisciplinary perspective for my research, which I will be using by selecting concepts from multiple theories and creating a novel framework relevant to the subject of the Sons of God: Hebrew, Aramaic and Akkadian language documents – as linguistic and historical source, and archeological data as necessary source for confirming the theories through material culture on different stages of historical timeframe..
Keywords: Divine council, sons of God, Nephelim, gods and divinities
Contact: inessa.p@btinternet.com