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Harper’s Bible Dictionary is a magnificent companion to the Harper’s Bible Commentary. It allows you to understand, in all their contexts, the texts of the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament. It is completely up to date, and represents the best current biblical scholarship. The entire volume is written by 180 members of the Society of Biblical Literature, and contains 3500...

chief god, ‘the totality of the sons/children of El.’ There are other OT texts in which ‘sons/children of God’ refers to divine beings. In Job 38:7 the phrase occurs in parallel with ‘the morning stars’ (RSV), and in Ps. 89:6, a heavily mythological hymn, God is beyond comparison with other deities, the ‘sons of God’ (RSV fn.). In Ps. 29:1 the ‘heavenly beings’ (RSV fn., ‘sons of God’) are called to praise God. The expression also appears in Deut. 32:8 (RSV reading with 40 from the Dead Sea Scrolls
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