Biblical Profile: The Birth of Noah
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Footnotes
1. See Jaap Doedens, Biblical Profile: “Exploring the Story of the Sons of God,” BAR, Summer 2020.
Endnotes
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Numbered 1Q20 or 1QapGen. For text and English translation, see Florentino García Martínez and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, eds., The Dead Sea Scrolls: Study Edition, vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2005), pp. 26–49. See also Joseph A. Fitzmyer, The Genesis Apocryphon of Qumran Cave 1 (1Q20): A Commentary, BibOr, 18/B (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 2004); Daniel A. Machiela, The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon: A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment of Columns 13–17, STDJ 79 (Leiden: Brill, 2009).
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Based on vague traces of numbering of the columns, the scroll must have been much longer, probably missing between 70 and 105 columns. See Fitzmyer, Genesis Apocryphon, p. 38.
3. 1QapGen 2:1 mentions the “Watchers” (Aramaic: עירין) and “Holy Ones” (Aramaic: קדישין). These are the standard designations within the Dead Sea Scrolls for those who are called the “sons of God” in Genesis 6:1–4. The Nephilim (Hebrew: נפלים; Aramaic: נפילין) are most probably to be seen as the offspring of the “sons of God” (Hebrew: בני־האלהים) and the “daughters of men” (Hebrew: האדם בנות).