Son of God Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Dead Sea Scrolls=== In some versions of [[Deuteronomy]] the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] refer to the sons of God rather than the sons of Israel, probably in reference to angels. The [[Septuagint]] reads similarly.<ref name="Riemer" />{{rp|147}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/otesources/05-deuteronomy/text/articles/heiser-deut32-bs.htm|title=DEUTERONOMY 32:8 AND THE SONS OF GOD|year=2001|author=Michael S. Heiser|access-date=30 January 2014|archive-date=29 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529094638/http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/Ted_Hildebrandt/OTeSources/05-Deuteronomy/Text/Articles/Heiser-Deut32-BS.htm}}</ref> 4Q174 is a [[midrashic]] text in which God refers to the Davidic messiah as his son.<ref name="resistance">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xvDTAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27|title=Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity|publisher=A&C Black|year=2007|pages=27β28|isbn=978-0-567-03043-6|editor1=Markus Bockmuehl |editor2=James Carleton Paget|access-date=8 December 2014}}</ref> [[4Q246]] refers to a figure who will be called the son of God and son of the Most High. It is debated if this figure represents the royal messiah, a future evil gentile king or something else.<ref name="resistance" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibr-bbr.org/files/bbr/BBR_1995_03_Cook_4Q246.pdf|title=4Q246|publisher=[[Bulletin for Biblical Research]] 5 (1995) 43-66 [Β© 1995 Institute for Biblical Research]|author=EDWARD M. COOK|access-date=8 December 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035653/https://www.ibr-bbr.org/files/bbr/BBR_1995_03_Cook_4Q246.pdf}}</ref> In [[11Q13]] [[Melchizedek]] is referred to as god the divine judge. Melchizedek in the bible was the king of [[Salem (Bible)|Salem]]. At least some in the [[Qumran]] community seemed to think that at the end of days Melchizedek would reign as their king.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8fX9xxXfNNQC&q=melchizedek+&pg=PA30|title=Judaism of the Second Temple Period: Qumran and Apocalypticism|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|year=2007|page=249|author=David Flusser|isbn=978-0-8028-2469-1|access-date=8 February 2014}}</ref> The passage is based on [[Psalm 82]].<ref name="rhetoricalPerspective">{{Cite book | author = Jerome H. Neyrey| title = The Gospel of John in Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=X0JZ9uSc8SoC&pg=PA314| year = 2009| publisher = Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing| pages = 313β316| isbn = 978-0-8028-4866-6}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page