Section E.4
The Identifications Not Made
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No particular Greek figure has been established here as a particular biblical being. Similar roles and names cannot do that work alone. The Greek archive and the biblical categories both require more precise reading.
A class-level comparison may be useful: a story of divine ancestry can be set beside the Genesis unions, and a civic power beside passages about nations. Even then, the relationship remains a proposal to test.
This is why the book has resisted a universal equation between gods and Watchers. The inquiry becomes stronger when a proposed identification has to explain the full evidence of the figure, rather than only the feature that first suggested the match.
Sources
- Hesiod, Theogony, line 104
- Genesis, CHAPTER 6 | USCCB
- The Book of Enoch: The Book of Enoch: Chapter XII | Internet Sacred Text Archive
- The General Epistle of JUDE
- Les savoirs de Thalès et de Kadmos. Histoire et représentations religieuses en Grèce ancienne | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge Core