Monthly Archives: January 2011
The Ancient Near Eastern Standard for a ‘Giant’
By ancient Near Eastern standards, someone is considered a giant if they are over six feet tall. (People were shorter back then.) – Thom Stark, The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When it Gets God Wrong (And Why … Continue reading
Filed under Genesis 6.1-4, Nephilim
$150 Million Noah’s Ark Theme Park – Will there be Giants?
The Bible-believin’ folk behind Kentucky’s Creation Museum are proposing a second theme park – one which includes a fully reconstructed Noah’s Ark, and which will cost a forecasted $150 million to construct (see reports in the NewYork Times, Daily Mail, and Zwinglius … Continue reading
Filed under Genesis 6.1-4, Nephilim, Theme Parks
Giants in the Earth Musical – Oxfordshire Theatre Company
A musical with the working title ’Giants in the Earth’ is scheduled to be performed by the Oxfordshire Theatre Company in its 2011-2012 season. The musical - written by Nick Wood, with musical score by Matt Marks, and directed by Karen Simpson – looks at the period when … Continue reading
Filed under Genesis 6.1-4, Nephilim, Plays Performances Musicals
Fertility Cults and Giants
Michael Blume’s research into the high fertility of the religious recently went viral in the media. News reports were soon breeding like rabbits: Scientific American, Live Science, The Telegraph, The Richard Dawkins Foundation, The Guardian, Sifi News, [and even New Zealand's TV3 News]. … Continue reading
Filed under Anakim, Biblical Giants
New Book on Graeco-Roman Reception: The Classical Tradition
A very good, quite sumptuous yet affordable new guide to the field of classical reception is The Classical Tradition (Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most and Salvatore Settis, eds; Harvard UP, 2010). The subjects which are included in the volume are judiciously selected, without aiming to be encyclopedic - and that results … Continue reading
Filed under Books on Reception History, Genesis 6.1-4, King Og
David vs. Goliath Movie in the pipeline
According to The Hollywood Reporter, film production company Relativity Media are planning to bring the epic battle between David and Goliath to the big screen. The director will be Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Day the Earth Stood Still). Relativity … Continue reading
Filed under 1 Samuel 17, Ancient Jewish texts, Biblical Giants, Film, Goliath, Poetry
