Are the Nephilim Here?

From: Scott Alan Roberts / RedPlanet

Fallen angels, an extinct race of giants, ETs…
what were the Nephilim of the Bible, and what happened to them? Are they still around? The books of Genesis and Enoch tell us that beings called the Watchers descended to Earth, mingled with women and created a race of hybrid offspring called the Nephilim.

But what happened to them? Did they die out, were they killed off…or do they STILL EXIST? Scott Alan Roberts makes a compelling and unique case that informs us about what really happened, who the Nephilim might actually be, and whether or not they still exist–and also, what kind of influence they may have in the world today.

The Nephilim were the offspring between the “sons of God” and the “daughters of men” according to Genesis 6:4; and giants who inhabited Canaan according to Numbers 13:33. A similar biblical Hebrew word with different vowel-sounds is used in Ezekiel 32:27 to refer to dead Philistine warriors.

Etymology

The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon gives the meaning of Nephilim as “giants”. Robert Baker Girdlestone argued the word comes from the Hiphil causative stem. Adam Clarke took it as passive, “fallen”, “apostates”. Ronald Hendel states that it is a passive form “ones who have fallen”, equivalent grammatically to paqid “one who is appointed” (i.e. overseer), asir, “one who is bound”, (i.e. prisoner) etc

The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch) is an ancient Jewish religious work, traditionally ascribed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. It is not part of the biblical canon as used by Jews, apart from Beta Israel. It is regarded as canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, but no other Christian group.

The older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) are estimated to date from about 300 BC, and the latest part (Book of Parables) probably was composed at the end of the 1st century BC.

A short section of 1 Enoch (1 En 1:9) is quoted in the New Testament (Letter of Jude 1:14–15), and is there attributed to “Enoch the Seventh from Adam” (1 En 60:8). It is argued by Cheyne (1899) that the writers of the New Testament were familiar with the content of the story and influenced by it.

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