Who were those gods the serpent was referring to? (Psalm 82:1 NRSV) The phrase "in the midst of the gods he holds judgment" indicates that the Hebrew god was surrounded by secondary gods. (CAT). Likewise, in this verse: "Before {in front of} the gods will I sing praise to you {God}." Ovidio Guzmán López (born 29 March 1990), commonly known as "El Ratón" or "El Nuevo Ratón" ("The Mouse" or "The New Mouse"), is a Mexican drug lord and high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal group based in Sinaloa. 13, 2021. The following article was excerpted from the Origins of Christianity website. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Future State: Superman: House of El #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Scott Godlewski, Gabe Eltaeb & ALW's Troy Peteri, on sale now. As with the Sons of God, the Nephilim no doubt populated more stories in ancient Israelite culture than the brief texts that have been preserved. The continuance of the Nephilim contradicts the testimony of the flood story (thus providing a lively subject for post biblical exegetes). Phoenician traditions about gods of mountains and about goddesses who have sex and bear divine offspring are interesting of themselves, but do not bear directly on the story or characters of Genesis 6:1-4. (Genesis 1:26 KJV) Their image was that of a man: they looked like Adam. Photograph © Trustees of the British Museum. Some Hellenistic era Phoenician traditions preserved in the writings of Philo of Byblos have been adduced as comparable to the themes and characters in Genesis 6: 1-4 (A.I. (Psalm 82:1 NRSV) The phrase "in the midst of the gods he holds judgment" indicates that the Hebrew god was surrounded by secondary gods. Ugarit. El … And–he says–they called themselves after their mothers, since the women of that time united freely with anyone upon whom they chanced.” (Eusebius, Praeparatio evangelica 1.10.9). In any case, these women become “El’s wives, El’s wives forever” (CAT 1.23.48-9) and give birth to two gods, Dawn and Dusk. After Adam and Eve ate the fruit, God said, "Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil." In the Ugaritic texts the “Sons / Children of El” are the members of El’s divine assembly (Mark S. Smith, trans., Simon B. Parker, ed., Ugaritic Narrative Poetry, 1997). He summoned his sons to his council (known as "the council of El") over which he presided. Had the writer of Genesis believed that there was only one god, he would have written "you will be as God. El, the God of Israel There, she is honoured with such typical titles as ‘Lady of heaven’ and ‘Mistress of all the gods’ — which are not specific to her but could equally apply to any goddess in Egypt.” http://judithweingarten.blogspot.com/2014_01_01_archive.html. The Children of El are immortal, as the goddess Anat affirms in her (probably spurious) promise of immortality to the mortal hunter Aqhat: “Ask for life, Aqhat the Hero. The legacy of Superman extends beyond just the Man of Steel, with Future State confirming that the family-line beginning with the Last Son of Krypton carries on for centuries into the future. You can find photos of El Chapo on the Instagram page. I am not familiar with any mythology where El has a son with his wife Asherah to give birth to Yahweh. They are less powerful than El and they occasionally visit humans on earth. At one point Baal recounts an shameful–but obscure–event during a feast in the divine assembly: Amid the ass[em]bly of the Children of El bn’ilm”, (Manfred Dietrich, Oswald Loretz, and Joaquín Sanmartín. Usually the gods feast in heaven, but occasionally they attend feasts on earth in the company of humans, such as the wedding feast for King Kirta (CAT 1.15.iii). The Children of El are immortal, as the goddess Anat affirms in her (probably spurious) promise of immortality to the mortal hunter Aqhat: Count months with the Children of El bn’il.”, (CAT 1.17.vi.26-9, after Mark S. Smith, trans., in Parker, ed., Ugaritic Narrative Poetry, 61, and Ronald Hendel, The Epic of the Patriarch: The Jacob Cycle and the Narrative Traditions of Canaan and Israel, 1987, pp. © Samizdat 2014-21. I liked the different take of him in MoS and BvS and I thought it was interesting, but Justice League Superman was classic comic book/Christopher Reeve Supes. Mar. THE son of notorious drug lord El Chapo ESCAPED cops after his arrest triggered an all-out cartel war in Mexico. Apparently El alone has the power to heal: “Stay seated, my children (bny), on your seats. The same lack of connection pertains to stories about open conflict or rebellions among the generations of the gods (related in Philo’s Phoenician History among other sources), since this theme is not perceptible in Genesis 6:1-4. Astarte and Anat (called in a Ugaritic text “Lady of High Heaven”) are good candidates. But it has long been clear that the characterization of these figures as human is due to Philo’s Euhemeristic technique, in which the stories of the gods have been transposed into stories about humans. Though immortal, the Children of El are less powerful than El. Deathlessness–I’ll endow you. According to Canaanite literature, the god El begot seventy sons through the goddess Asherah: "{El} summons Asherah's seventy children." Create a website or blog at WordPress.com. (Psalm 29:1 YLT) Here is another instance where the Hebrew God is called "El" and presides over his council: "God {אל El} is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them {referring to his sons} that are about him." ", When Genesis was written the Hebrews believed there were other gods beside God. The new series will debut in July 2021, replacing the … Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is defending a decision by security forces. (Genesis 3:22 KJV), The expression "one of us" indicates that God was talking to his peers: the secondary gods, his sons, the ones mentioned in the following verse: "... when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD ..." (Job 1:6 RSV) As mentioned above, God presided over them: "God has taken his place in the divine council {Heb. The flood intervenes, which kills all living creatures on earth: “Everything with life’s breath in its nostril, everything that lived on dry land, died” (Genesis 7:22 J). 22-4. He has a younger half-brother from the future: Dru-Zod. Ronald Hendel, “The Nephilim Were on the Earth: Genesis 6:1-4 and its Ancient Near Eastern Context,” in Christoph Auffarth and Loren T. Stuckenbruck, eds., The Fall of the Angels, Brill, 2004, pp. If these traditions were about primeval humanity, as the text suggests, then the comparison with Genesis 6:1-4 would be warranted, particularly the birth of giants and perhaps the sexual adventures of women in primeval times. Nonetheless, the long duration of the “Sons / Children of El” in West Semitic lore indicates that the story in Genesis 6:1-4 is rooted in widespread cultural traditions. The clues that this is a sequence of divine figures include the following: Aion (“Eternity”) is identifiable as the well-known Canaanite / Phoenician god ‘Olam (“Eternal One”), as in the Arslan Tash inscription above; the children who discover fire are named “Light,” “Fire,” and “Flame,” also identifiable as Canaanite / Phoenician gods; their sons whose names are given to mountains are identifiable as local Baals—Baal of Kassios (= Mount Zaphon), called Zeus Kassios in Hellenistic times, Baal of Lebanon, and Baal of Anti-Lebanon (= Mount Hermon); Samemroumos means in Phoenician “High Heaven” (= Greek Hypsouranios), perhaps related to Baal of Heaven in the Phoenician inscription of Azitawadda above, or to the temple precinct in Sidon called “high heaven.”, Gold pendant, possibly Astarte. elohim}, knowing good and evil." For Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, whose feats of escapology were matched only by his drug-smuggling acumen, it was a trademark yet ultimately futile … (Psalm 138:1 KJV) These secondary gods are called in Hebrew the "sons of El": "Ascribe to Jehovah, you sons of the mighty {בן אל  bene Elim = sons of El}, Ascribe to Jehovah honor and strength." All Rights Reserved. In a portion of Philo’s Phoenician History (as quoted by the church father Eusebius), an interesting sequence of primeval history is related: “From Genos, the son of Aion and Protogonos, there again were born mortal children whose names were Phos, Pur, and Phlox. April 21 (UPI) --DC Comics announced on Wednesday a new, ongoing Superman comic book series that will follow the adventures of Clark Kent's son, Jon Kent.Superman: Son of Kal-El… (Deuteronomy 32:8 RSV), In the following verse these "sons of God" are called the "host of heaven," whom God allotted to all the nations: "... all the host of heaven ... whom the LORD your God has divided to all nations ..." (Deuteronomy 4:19 KJV), Sign in|Report Abuse|Print Page|Powered By Google Sites, Similarly, the Hebrew god presided over "the council of El": "God has taken his place in the divine council {. The Akkadian god Marduk corresponded to the Canaanite-Hebrew god El. They are described as the offspring of El and his chief wife, the goddess Asherah. The son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán appears to have surrendered meekly to Mexican security forces during a raid in the northern city of Culiacán. 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