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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