Looking at the Book (2015) Genesis: History, Fiction or Neither? (Part 16 of 38)

0055 Hoffmeier dwells on Genesis 6:1-4, concerning the sons of God and the daughters of men.

Literary analysis suggests that the Nephilim episode relates to Noah’s flood in the same way that the Tower of Babelrelates to Abraham’s calling.

0056 In this, both point to periods of increasing contradictions within established paradigms, the final period of a cycle… er… genre.