Greg Lanier surveys the Watchers and Seth–Cain interpretations of Genesis 6, presenting the Watchers view as the earliest and most abundant Second Temple reading without clearly endorsing either tradition.
Wes Huff views Genesis 6 as ambiguous about the Nephilim and treats the Book of Enoch as non-canonical Jewish expansions, rejecting Ethiopian canon myths.
Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch were 19th‑century conservative Lutheran Old Testament scholars whose multi‑volume Commentary on the Old Testament has shaped generations of interpreters. In their exposition of Genesis 6:1–4, they argue that the “sons of God”...