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For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

“The sons of the gods” (בני האלהים) are individuals of the class god, as “the sons of man” (בני האדם, 1 S. 26:19) are individuals of the class man: cp. also “the sons of the prophets,” meaning members of a prophetic guild. Consequently the same class of beings who are called “the sons of the gods” (בני (ה)אלהים, 2:1, 38:7, Gn. 6:2; בני אלים, Ps. 29:1, 89:7: cp. בר אלהין, Dn. 3:25) can also be called simply “gods” (אלהים, Ps. 82:1, 6: cp. אלם (point אֵלִם) in Ps. 58:2). The phrase is traceable to
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