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Nephilim Giants: 4,000 Cubits in the Dead Sea Scrolls
In 1947, a teenage shepherd found jars of ancient scrolls in a cave near Qumran, hidden for two thousand years. Among the Dead Sea Scrolls was the Book of Giants, an Aramaic text that gives the Nephilim names, like the brothers Ohya and Hahya, sons of the Watcher Shemihazah, and describes beings of staggering size. The episode takes one figure tied to that tradition, four thousand cubits, at face value, and asks what kind of world could have produced them.
Some creationists point to a pre-flood canopy of water that made the atmosphere denser and richer in oxygen. In that view, the flood…
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