Lost Race of the Giants by Patrick Chouinard

Author:Patrick Chouinard
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Ancient Mysteries
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Published: 2013-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

GIANTS IN THE BIBLE

The Bible is rich in giant symbolism and, as such, today remains one of the most authoritative works on the subject. In addition to the many pre-Christian Greek myths, the Bible lends credibility, even provability, to claims of the existence of giants.

The Book of Job is considered the oldest book in the Hebrew Bible. Job 26:5–6 reveals: “The primeval giants tremble imprisoned beneath the waters with their inhabitants. The unseen world [the bottom of the sea] lies open before them, and the place of destruction is uncovered.” Author Frank Joseph links this description to an early reference to Atlantis. The giants here could be construed as being the original children of Atlantis, just as the founding fathers of Atlantis were a giant super-race known as the Titans, an earlier population of enormous gods that once ruled the primordial universe (Joseph 2005).

The Bible also describes what is perhaps the most famous giant encounter of all in Samuel 7:1–4: “And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, whose height was six cubits and a span . . . and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass and the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron.”

Goliath was the direct descendant of King Og of the Ammonites. Chronicles 20:3–8 gives a description of Goliath’s lineage and how he came to confront David:

And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people return to Jerusalem. And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued. And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite whose spear staff was like a weaver’s beam. And yet again there was war at Gath [the legendary Philistine city and home of Goliath] where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot and he also was the son of the giants. But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him. These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

Recently, a pottery shard was found in the ruins of Gath, dating to 950 BCE. It was inscribed with two non-Semitic names etymologically similar to the biblical name Goliath. Both names, “ALWT” and “WLT” , were written in Semitic “Proto-Canaanite” letters. The dating of the artifact was consistent with the traditional biblical date as well.

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