Abstract
This chapter discusses the concept of divine sonship at Qumran in which the author looked at the three categories in which texts that speak of divine sonship in the Hebrew Bible are commonly grouped: (1) the angelic “sons of God”; (2) Israel, “son of God”; and (3) the king, “son of God.” To these three categories the author have added a fourth that is not found in the Hebrew Bible, but which appears in some Qumranic texts: (4) the Messiah, “son of God.” As a result of the influx of Greek philosophical ideas and Roman juridical praxis, sonship in Philo is a complex phenomenon than in the Hebrew Bible. Together with divine adoption, the two most innovative elements in the theme of divine sonship in Philo are the consideration of the cosmos as son of God, and his description of the Logos as p??t??????. The chapter briefly comments on both. Keywords:divine sonship; Hebrew Bible; Philo; Qumran
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