Book of Giants

The 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.|||Aramaic fragments found among the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran (1Q23–24, 2Q26, 4Q203, 4Q530–533, 6Q8). Also known from Manichaean versions.|||Composed in the late 2nd century BCE or earlier.|||Not canonical in any tradition.|||Describes the exploits and eventual destruction of the giants. Illuminates the Enochic tradition and the Manichaean reception of Jewish apocalyptic.|||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.|||Charlesworth, J. H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 2. Doubleday, 1985.|||Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library|https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/|View Qumran fragment images.;; Wikipedia Overview|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Giants|Background and scholarly references.|||" And the giants we're born, and they we're mighty men, and they did evil in the earth." — Book of Giants (paraphrase)