Descent to Hell (Ducio, 1308)
In the beginning of the book of Job, while God is holding a board meeting of sorts with other divine beings (Hebrew bney-ha-elohim, “sons of God”), a certain divine being confronts God and challenges God’s extremely high esteem of Job–which amounts to,”Is Job really all that?”
This “son of God” divine figure is referred to in…
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