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Nephilim
↰ answers Jerry Friedman
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Jerry Friedman wrote:
Another possibly amusing connection is that if Genesis 6:4 is part of the story of Noah, it appears to say that at least some of the Nephilim survived the flood (apparently stated explicitly in the apocryphal Book of Jubilees). “Now who do we know that can live under water”
I would read it as saying that more Nephilim were produced after the flood. - which would be odd if the Nephilim were the cause of the flood. (Thers no doubt, though, that this interpretation - that their fathers were fallen angels, and that they produced the corruption that led to the flood - goes back a long way, being found in the book of Enoch, which at least in its original form is pre-Christian.)