The Book of Giants

Dead Sea Scrolls Edition

The Book of Giants fills in one of the most tantalising gaps in the Book of Enoch: what happened to the Nephilim, the giant offspring of the Watchers and human women, after the angels who fathered them were imprisoned? The answer, preserved in several Dead Sea Scrolls fragments, is that the giants had prophetic dreams of their own destruction and sent one of their number — Mahway — flying on wings

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Edition085

FormatDigital PDF

Editorial statusIn review

TraditionLost Scripture

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01 / Historical context

3rd century BC Enochic text, found in multiple Dead Sea Scrolls fragments. Describes the giants’ fate and their prophetic dreams. Suppressed along with 1 Enoch.

02 / Why it matters

The giants knew they were going to die. They tried to send a message. Here it is.

From / associated with the text

““And there appeared to them a vision in a dream, and the Nephilim saw the dream and feared it, and the two of them had a vision together.””

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The Book of Giants

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