“We might fill volumes with the history of the remains of pretended giants found in ancient tombs. The books, in fact, which exist formed a voluminous literature in the middle ages – its title gigantology.”
- Louis Figuier, The World Before the Deluge (London: Chapman and Hall, 1865), 341
As late as 1878 the Encyclopedia Britannica’s “Giants” entry carefully weighed arguments for and against the historicity of Giants—only cautiously concluding their non-existence. But whether they existed or not, the Giants of the Bible – including Goliath, King Og, the Rephaim, the Nephilim, and the Anakim – continue to leave deep footprints in our contemporary landscape.
Remnant of Giants (Jan 2011 – March 2012) examined the reception and effect of the Giants mentioned in the Bible – the Rephaim, Nephilim, Gibborim, Anakim, etc, who once stood tall in the the imaginary land of “Israel” and in the lands of her nearest neighbours, Ammon, Moab, Edom, and Philistia.
The picture in the header is by R. Crumb, The Book of Genesis Illustrated (New York and London: WW Norton, 2009), and illustrates Genesis 6.1.
Tyrone Slothrop,
Gigantologist
Discovery of Giants?
