Another Look at the Nephilim

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Last Fall, I wrote an article on the Nephilim in which I argued that exegetically, Genesis presents them as angelic-human hybrids. There are some obvious issues with this interpretation, but in the article I showed that they were not insurmountable. Recently, I found an approach to the Nephilim that nuances the angelic-hybrid view in ways that further undercut the objections to the view. In this article, I explain this approach and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses.

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