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    Nephilim and Giants
    Nephilim and Giants
    Nephilim and Giants
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    Nephilim and Giants

    By Dr. A. Nyland

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    What were the Nephilim? 
    The Nephilim, a word meaning Giants, were the progeny of the Watchers and human women. Greek mythology also speaks of Giants. The Nephilim were also connected with the Anakin and Rephaim. The latter were a mysterious group also known as Underworld dwellers. Most people do not know this, as the word Rephaim is translated in many English Bible versions as "the dead." Zecharia Sitchin, in a confusion of Hebrew and Aramaic, alleged that the Nephilim were "fallen ones" and confused them with their fathers, the Watchers. 
    Ancient languages scholar Dr. A. Nyland sifts through the evidence to tell us what we do and don't know about these mysterious ancient beings.
    About the Author. 
    Dr. A. Nyland spent her time on Faculty at the University of New England, Australia, teaching ancient grammar, conducting a lengthy replication of a Bronze Age horse training text, and drinking espresso. 
    She is the best selling translator of such books as The Complete Books of Enoch and author of What Were the Watchers? as well as Nephilim and Giants.
    The information based on her books is not based on her own opinions, but is presented with a view to getting actual facts out there. This is harder and harder in this day and age with misinformation spreading like wildfire on the net, driven by all the books by authors who know no ancient languages, and get their information from English translations rather than the original texts. It is futile to research ancient texts in English translation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAncient Mysteries Publishing
    Release dateJun 7, 2018
    ISBN9781386029229
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      Nephilim and Giants - Dr. A. Nyland

      Chapter 1

      As I said in the previous book, What were the Watchers , wrong information is easily spread. Here is an example from the Bible for you. Just think of the nativity scenes we all see everywhere at Christmas. They all have three wise men peering at the baby Jesus in a manger, don’t they? And if you have ever been to a school Christmas play, you will no doubt see Mary and Joseph, along with the three wise men and the shepherds, all looking at the newborn Jesus in a manger.

      I challenge you to get your Bibles, no matter which English Bible version you have, and see if there were three wise men, and see if the wise men were present at the manger. No, they were not.

      The facts are that the Bible never mentions the number of the wise men, and never states that the wise men were present when Jesus was newborn. It does state that they visited Jesus in a house. At no time does the Bible, in any translation, suggest or imply that the wise men were present soon after the birth of Jesus. Further, not one Bible version states the number three. This is purely unfounded tradition based perhaps on the number of different types of gifts, not even the number of gifts.

      Another Christian myth is the antichrist (literally, anti-anointing). Did you know that any antichrist is not mentioned in Revelation? In fact, there is no mention of a single antichrist figure anywhere in the Bible. The word only appears in the First and Second Letters of John, only briefly, and is identified as those people (plural) who do not agree that Jesus Christ (literally, Jesus the Anointed One) has come in human form. Many have said that a figure called the Antichrist is the Beast of Revelation. Sure, believe that if you like, but bear in mind that the Bible does not state or imply that they were one and the same. There is a difference between opinion and fact.

      As the misconceptions are so persuasive in Christianity, it is not hard to realize that the situation pertaining to non Biblical works is just as bad.

      As I said in Book 1, What were the Watchers, the Watchers were a class of angel. According to the ancient texts, some of the Watchers came to earth and, against God’s orders, taught weapons, spell potions, root cuttings, astrology, astronomy and alchemy to the humans living on earth. Some of the Watchers had sex with human women.

      Nephilim were the progeny of these Watchers and the human women.

      Author Zechariah Sitchin incorrectly said that the word Nephilim meant fallen ones: those who came down from above, those who descended to earth, but Nephilim does not come from the word naphal, to fall. Besides, it was the Watchers, not the Nephilim, who came down to earth. All accounts tell us that the Nephilim were born on earth.

      Rather, the word Nephilim is from the Aramaic word naphil, giant.

      The ancient Greeks translated the word Nephilim as Giant in the Septuagint. The Septuagint was the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible dated to the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE. The Septuagint is quoted in the New Testament by Jesus and Paul. It was used by the early church.

      The English translation Giant can be somewhat misleading, as the term Giants in those days did not refer simply to very tall people, as we think of Giants today.

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