Joseph Lumpkin

Here, the community of Qumran hid their most valuable treasures, scrolls of ancient wisdom and religious insight.

The Book of Giants, like the Book of Enoch, concerns itself with the Nephilim, which, in the Enoch version, are the offspring o

The text relates how some giants, named Ohya, Hahya and Mahway, sons o

The mention of Enoch and the storyline referencing the patriarch places The Book of Giants firmly in the list of “Enochian” texts, along with 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, and 3 Enoch, also known as The Ethiopic Book of Enoch, The Slavonic Secrets of Enoch, and The He

The name "Shemyaza(z)" means 'infamous rebellion', the combination of 'shem' (meaning 'name' or 'fame' [whether positive or negative]) and 'azaz' (which means 'rebellion' or 'arrogance' as a negative particle).

The egegoroi are the Watchers; a group of fallen angels who mated with mortal women and produced the Nephilim mentioned in the books of Jubilees, 1Enoch, and Genesis 6:4.)

3 And they said to me: These are the Grigori, who with their prince Satanail (Satan) rejected the Lord of Light.

Two of the evil giants in the Aramaic version are named Gilgamesh and Hobabis. Gilgamesh is an epic figure i

Gilgamesh was said to be the king of Uruk. Uruk was an ancient city of Sumer

According to the Epic, Gilgamesh, a mortal demigod, meets Utnapishtim, the Babylonian version of Noah and the only man to s