I’ve finished reading Heiser’s The Unseen Realm and am now working my way through the companion materials on this website. He touches on something that really needs more exposure. Feel free to do your own research, but what I’m about to tell you is not common knowledge among biblical scholars, neither Jew nor Christian. Rather, I learned it from broader research among the various, mostly secular scholars of ancient religions. I note with some bemusement that biblical Christian scholars seem to have no trouble using the work of secular scholars, but seem to ignore this one particular area.
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I’ve finished reading Heiser’s The Unseen Realm and am now working my way through the companion materials on this website. He touches on something that really needs more exposure. Feel free to do your own research, but what I’m about to tell you is not common knowledge among biblical scholars, neither Jew nor Christian. Rather, I learned it from broader research among the various, mostly secular scholars of ancient religions. I note with some bemusement that biblical Christian scholars seem to have no trouble using the work of secular scholars, but seem to ignore this one particular area.