Editing Son of God (section)

===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=27–28|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 [© 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 = 313–316| isbn = 978-0-8028-4866-6}}</ref>