A week or so ago I blogged about Dr. Peter Gentry’s attempt to divorce the Nephilim from the supernatural sons of God via a YouTube video he created. His argument isn’t coherent because it implodes on itself, as I noted. In more recent days (Is there some reason the...
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Giant Human Mummy Fakery
The Strange Remains blog recently published a worthwhile post on the fakery of giant (and otherwise) human remains in the 19th century. I recommend it. Folks who are into newspaper reports of giants in North America are often ignorant of the fact (or just don’t...
I Guess I Have to See The Shape of Water
The recent movie The Shape of Water won the Academy Award for best picture this past weekend. Like most of the country, I wasn’t watching. However, it appears I’m going to have to see it. Its plotline sounds a little too familiar. In case you’re not...
“Giant” Third Dynasty Pharaoh Study in the News
I’m referring to this recent two-page (!) study in a medical journal: “Oldest case of gigantism? Assessment of the alleged remains of Sa-Nakht, king of ancient Egypt,” Lancet: Diabetes and Endocrinology 5:8 (August 2017): 580-581. Several folks have...
DNA, Canaanites, and the Biblically-Illiterate Media
By now I’ve probably received a heads up on the story about Canaanite DNA disproving the biblical conquest narrative a dozen times. Here’s my own heads-up: If you see some “news” about the Bible in mass media, you can presume it’s...
Giant 5th Dynasty Skeleton from Giza, Egypt
I came across this article tonight — it’s accessible online: D. M. Mulhern, “A Probable Case of Gigantism in a Fifth Dynasty Skeleton from the Western Cemetery at Giza,Egypt,” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 15 (2005): 261–275. In...
The Myth of Double-Row Teeth and Elongated-Skull Nephilim
I’ve blogged once before about this point of pseudo-research as it relates to using the Talmud for its justification. In biblical thinking and history, however, the nephilim (who were unusually tall) died out in biblical times. That means there were no modern nephilim...
Elongated Skulls (aka, Artificial Cranial Modification): It Has Nothing to do with Nephilim
I’ve blogged about this before, asking questions like “show me the Bible verse that associates elongated skulls with the nephilim,” and pointing out that the phenomena is well-known in the medical and anthropological fields. (I even posted pictures...
More Grand Canyon Nephilim Hoaxing
From Jason Colavito’s blog: “Nephilim of the Grand Canyon: Cross-Pollination in the Copy-Paste World of Fringe Archaeology.” Jason’s brief piece recounts new efforts to revive the 1909 Arizona Gazette Grand Canyon hoax about discovering...
The Giant Clans and the Conquest
Those who have read The Unseen Realm know that I have an atypical perspective on the conquest — specifically, the contention by many that the Israelite conquest was an indiscriminate genocide of the inhabitants of Canaan. My view is that it wasn’t...
Heiser Article on Rephaim in LBD (Lexham Bible Dictionary)
Can’t believe I forgot to post this when I wrote it a few months back. LBD is available for free with the download of the Faithlife Study Bible (I did the notes for Genesis through Judges on that). Anyway, here’s my article on “Rephaim” in PDF:...
Another Questionable 19th Century Giant Story and Its Careless Use by Creationists
Hat tip to Edward Babinski and Jason Colavito for this piece. I’ve asked it before: Why do Christian “researchers” embrace highly suspect newspaper reports from the 19th and early 20th centuries so readily? The answer, of course, is to prop up a...
Textual References to Giants in Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Sources
Jason Colavito is doing all of us interested in the topic of giants a service with this page-in-progress on his website. It's got a good number of entries/examples already. Check it out!
Meso-American Giants and Codex Rios
Please be patient with the images loading. Several weeks ago I received an email with a YouTube URL about “legitimate” giants in ancient Mexico. I watched it and learned about Mexican “giants” called Quinametzin. The evidence offered in the...
Cemetery in Egypt Yields 7-Foot Man
Some of you may have heard about the new BYU excavations at the Fag el-Gamous necropolis in Egypt. Because the area is so large (300 acres) and the mummies recovered at buried in mass graves (these are commoners of the Roman era through Late Antiquity), some...