Hi Lonestar
That is strange wording, to be sure. Didn't they also have "sons?" Then it talks about the "sons of God" finding the "daughters of men" and finding them fair, had children with them. Why is this part of the Flood story? Could it be that herein lays the reason for the Flood?
: BUT, Your Questions are very NAiiV, but worth answering
Amongst Teological litterature researchers
it is common practise to regard the Bible-story as symbolical/allegoric
The REAL Bible Story is all about Hegemony Battles
between the Israelians ( originally a split-off Brance
of the original Punicians in South- Araby.)
and the agressive Assyrian host acting at the borderlimits,
between Israel & Assur-halfway across " Arabia - FoELIX "
( When " Israel" under Egyptian Hegemony extended till the Euphrates !)
Thus Egypt and Israel were longstanding if involuntary-
enemies-of ASSUR & BABYLON.
When EZDRAS was asked to
RE- WRITE the ancient BIBLE / TORA
which had been Stolen and Stored in Persepolis by King DARIUS-1 in
Ca.500 bcIt is obvious that the BATTLES against ASSUR & BABYLON
which were described in there were censored taboed !
by the Persian CENSORS. WHY ? just because !
So ESDRAS
had to turn battle drama's into religious Sap-Stories to get " Our " Bible
past the Persian and MEDES(=ex-)" Babylonian" censors and Gates of Persepolis !
This means that EDRAS had to make amens so to make it it appear thatMOZES was an Egyptian Fugitive Lawgiver fleeing to Babylon, masking the fact that instead of the REAL
MOZES who was an Egyptian Generalissimus poised to conquer
and kill every Babylonian in Araby in Sight !
You see the Problem ?Alas
Dear old Alexander the Great found it neccesary to burn the Place down in 331 bc.
so we ignore the extend and precise wording
of the original Bible texts from the egyptian original !
We do have Second or Third-Hand " Copies "of the Bible of King JOSIAH( dd
610 bc.)
but they were casually-copied by the likes of Herodotus
before the Library of Alexandria went aflame by
dear old CAESAR in 47 bc.
CONCLUSION:" The
TEXTUS- Receptus " of,
Both the ( Hebrew-)Bible and Plato's ( HYBRIS-)Atlantis Story
have, over time been subjected to text-destroying
censorships
They couldn't be taken at face valueneither could any Biography of the great-Prophet Mohammed
( Because he was originally a Bysantine-General with a different name !
and under that name considdered an enemy of the Arabian islamists !)
BUT, that's a different Story !
Sincerely "
BlueHue " ( Remember to comment on my SubScript( Bottom Posting !)
