Editing Giant (section)

===Abrahamic===
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[[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] tells of the [[Nephilim]] before and after [[Noah's Flood]]. The word ''Nephilim'' is loosely translated as ''giants'' in some translations of the Hebrew Bible, but left untranslated in others. According to {{Bibleref|Genesis|7:23}}, the Nephilim were destroyed in the Flood, but Nephilim are reported after the Flood, including:

* The [[Anakim]]<ref name="bibleref2|Numbers|13:28–33">{{bibleref2|Numbers|13:28–33}}</ref>
* The [[Amorites]]<ref>{{bibleref2|Amos|2:9}}</ref><ref>[http://www.biblestudytools.com/concordances/naves-topical-bible/amorites.html Nave's Topical Bible: Amorites], Nave, Orville J., Retrieved:2013-03-14</ref>
* The [[Rephaite]]s,<ref>{{bibleref2|Joshua|12:4}}</ref> also known as The [[Emite]]s<ref>{{bibleref2|Deuteronomy|2:10}}</ref>

The [[Book of Numbers]]<ref name="bibleref2|Numbers|13:28–33"/> includes the discouraging report by the spies sent by [[Moses]] into [[Canaan]]: "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are. (...) All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like [[grasshopper]]s in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them." The [[Book of Joshua]], describing the actual conquest of Canaan in a later generation, makes reference to such people living there in (Joshua 14:12–15 and Joshua 15:13–14).

[[File:Osmar Schindler David und Goliath.jpg|thumb|upright|[[David]] faces [[Goliath]] in this 1888 lithograph by [[Osmar Schindler]]]]
The Bible also tells of [[Gog and Magog#Giants|Gog and Magog]], who later entered European folklore, and of the famous battle between [[David]] and the [[Philistine]] [[Goliath]]. While Goliath is often portrayed as a giant in retellings of the Biblical narrative, he appears to be significantly smaller than other giants, biblical or otherwise. The [[Masoretic Text]] version of the [[Book of Samuel]] gives his height as six [[Biblical cubit|cubits]] and one span (possibly {{convert|313-372|cm|ftin}}),<ref>{{bibleverse|1 Samuel|17:4|he}}</ref> while the [[Septuagint]], the 1st-century Jewish historian [[Flavius Josephus]] and the 2nd–1st-centuries BCE [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] give Goliath's height as four cubits and one span (possibly {{convert|216-258|cm|ftin}}).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/James_Juris.htm|title=Variants of Bible Manuscripts|website=uop.edu|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227023513/http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/James_Juris.htm|archive-date=2008-12-27}}</ref> For comparison, the Anakites are described as making the Israelites seem like grasshoppers.<ref>{{bibleref2|Numbers|13:33}}</ref> See also [[Gibborim (biblical)|Gibborim]].

[[Josephus]] also described the Amorites as giants in his ''[[Antiquities of the Jews]]'', circa 93{{Nbsp}}CE, indicating that some sort of fossils may have been on display at that time:<ref>Freedman, David Noel, ed., ''The Anchor Bible Dictionary'', (New York: Doubleday, 1997, 1992).</ref> "For which reason they removed their camp to Hebron; and when they had taken it, they slew all the inhabitants. There were till then left the race of giants, who had bodies so large, and countenances so entirely different from other men, that they were surprising to the sight, and terrible to the hearing. The bones of these men are still shown to this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men."<ref>Josephus, ''Antiquities of the Jews'', Book 5, Chapter 2, Number 3, [http://www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/ant-5.htm Antiquities of the Jews: Book 5], Retrieved: 15 March 2013</ref>

The [[Book of Enoch]] describes giants as the offspring of [[Watcher (angel)|Watcher]]s and women in 7:2.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe010.htm|title=The Book of Enoch: The Book of Enoch: Chapter VII|work=sacred-texts.com}}</ref>