Book of Giants

An Enochic work describing the exploits and eventual destruction of the giants, the offspring of the fallen angels (Watchers) and human women. Found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.|||Aramaic fragments found among the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran. The discovery at Qumran puts its date at least before the 2nd century BCE.|||Composed in the late 2nd century BCE or earlier.|||Not canonical in any tradition.|||Describes the exploits and eventual destruction of the giants, the offspring of the fallen angels (Watchers) and human women.|||Milik, J. T. The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumrân Cave 4. Oxford, 1976.|||Stuckenbruck, L. T. The Book of Giants from Qumran. Mohr Siebeck, 1997.|||Book of Giants — Wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Giants|Background and scholarly discussion.;; Book of Giants — Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library|https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/|View 4Q530–533 fragments.|||" And the giants we're born, and they we're mighty men, and they did evil in the earth." — Book of Giants (paraphrase)