Book of Giants (Qumran)

The Book of Giants from Qumran is an Enochic work describing the exploits and destruction of the giants, the offspring of the fallen angels and human women.|||Aramaic fragments from Qumran (1Q23–24, 2Q26, 4Q203, 4Q530–533, 6Q8).|||Composed in the late 2nd century BCE or earlier.|||Not canonical in any tradition.|||Describes the exploits and destruction of the giants. Illuminates the Enochic tradition at Qumran 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.|||Perrin, A. B. " The Book of Giants." In Outside the Bible. JPS, 2013.|||Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library|https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/|View 4Q530–533 fragments.;; Wikipedia — Book of Giants|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Giants|Background and scholarship.|||" And the giants we're born, and they we're mighty men, and they did evil in the earth." — Book of Giants (paraphrase)