Category Archives: Heroes / Gibborim
GiantKiller Pictures to Produce Trilogy about David
GiantKiller Pictures plans to produce three films based on the five-book Lion of War Series by Cliff Graham, telling the story of the giant killer David and his mighty men (“Gibborim”). The series follows the life and exploits of the historical King David … Continue reading
Filed under 2 Samuel 21, 23, Biblical Giants, Film, Heroes / Gibborim, Novels
Hero in Epic, Hero in Cult: The Rephaim and the Narrative Sublimation of Heroic Dualities in the Hebrew Bible
Brian R. Doak, Gigantologist Here’s a very interesting paper on Giants presented recently at the New England and Eastern Canada Region of the SBL. And I think the authors are precisely right. The paper appears to demonstrate the benefit of the recent shift away … Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Jewish texts, Biblical Giants, Heroes / Gibborim, King Og, Nephilim, Rephaim
Strange Flesh: Knust’s Unprotected Texts
Bob Cornwall (Ponderings on a Faith Journey) provides a review of Jennifer Wright Knust’s Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire (San Francisco: Harper One, 2011). He comments on Genesis 19; Genesis 6.1-4; and the inner-biblical reception of those texts … Continue reading
Filed under 1 Corinthians 11.10, Fallen angels, Genesis 6.1-4, Heroes / Gibborim, Jude
The Women Seduce the Angels: Genesis 6.1-4 in Two Christian Versions – T. Reuben and The Almighty Bible
The curious incident which is narrated in Genesis 6.1-4 makes ‘the sons of God’ responsible for making off with some eye-catchingly beautiful human women, and having some (implicitly) transgressive divine-human sex: And the sons of god saw that the daughters of man were good. And … Continue reading
Filed under 1 Corinthians 11.10, Comic books, Fallen angels, Genesis 6.1-4, Heroes / Gibborim, Nephilim
Homer’s Odyssey and the Old Testament: Bruce Louden
Bruce Louden asks a good question (and gives one very good answer to it) in the ‘Introduction’ to his recent book, Homer’s Odyssey and the Near East (Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 5: Why do commentators usually omit consideration of the substantial parallels … Continue reading
