In “When the Sons of God Cavorted With the Daughters of Men,” Ronald S. Hendel focuses on a story that has scandalized Bible readers for millennia. How did it get there? What does it mean, this seemingly polytheistic tale of earthly women and fallen angels? In a sometimes breathtaking analysis, Hendel explains how strains from earlier Canaanite and Babylonian stories have been transformed in the Bible to teach moral lessons and to explain humankind’s mortality. A former excavator at Tel Lachish Archaeological Project in Israel, Hendel is assistant professor of religious studies at Southern Methodist University. In 1985, his […]