The Invisible Realm and Canonical Hermeneutics: Michael Heiser’s Divine Council Worldview as the Key to Biblical Exegesis

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Contemporary biblical exegesis suffers from a profound epistemological divide, driven by the systemic imposition of modern Western intellectual categories onto ancient Semitic texts (Bates, 2026d; Heiser, 2015). Since the Enlightenment, Western biblical scholarship has been heavily shaped by scientific materialism, Cartesian dualism, and post-Reformation confessional systematics (Bates, 2026d; Walton, 2009).