For many scholars, the Qumran fragments confirmed the Book of Giants to originally have been an independent composition from the Second Temple period.

The pop-up, pull-out poster in this BIG tome measures over four feet tall--and offers plenty of playful extras, including flaps to lift and removable items such as a clock tower pocket watch, pipe organ harmonica, and even the giant's ear wax!There are scores of ancient documents similar to the Book of Giants that have the “feel” of biblical books but do not make the cut as true history or holy canon. The fragments of the Vifrās (M 35, M 186, M 205, M 258, M 740, T ii K, T iii D 278) will be published at some other opportunity. There exists hardly any discovery in this realm of knowledge to which Henning has not made major and fundamental contributions, and the fact that it is precisely this area of Iranian studies which went through an unprecedented evolution in the 20th century underlines the importance of this scholar, who can be without exaggeration considered as one of the leading philologists of the past century.

The Book of Giants [17] is an expansive narrative of the biblical story of the birth of "giants" in Genesis 6. I knew that I would have to have a Giant storytime just so I could get to share it with the children at the library.Lionheart by Richard CollingridgeDo your bookworms enjoy stories about giants and other larger than life creatures?