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Cover; Preface; Table of Contents; Matthew Goff: Introduction; Part One: Gibborim and Gigantes. Antecedents, Reception, and Comparative Contextsfrom the Hebrew Bible and Greek Literature; Brian R. Doak: The Giant in a Thousand Years: Tracing Narratives of Gigantism in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond; I. The Embarrassing and Alluring Giant; II. Five Categories of Giant Thinking in the Hebrew Bible; 1. The giant as divine or semi-divine figure; 2. The giant as anti-law and anti-king; 3. The giant as elite adversary and elite animal; 4. The giant as unruly or overgrown vegetation. Part Two:Tales of Giants in their Ancient Jewish Context. The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Watchers, and Daniel Joseph L. Angel: The Humbling of the Arrogant and the "Wild Man" and "Tree Stump" Traditions in the Book of Giants and Daniel 4 ; I. Introduction; II. Parallels in Daniel 4 and the Book of Giants; III. Explanations and Implications; Amanda M. Davis Bledsoe: Throne Theophanies, Dream Visions, and Righteous Seers: Daniel, the Book of Giants, and 1 Enoch Reconsidered; I. Introduction; II. The Throne Theophanies of Daniel 7, 4Q530, and 1 Enoch 14; 1. The Deity; 2. The Throne(s). 3. The AttendantsIII. The Relationship between the Visions of Daniel 7, 4Q530, and 1 Enoch 14; IV. Dream Visions and the Role of the Seer in Daniel 7, 4Q530, and 1 Enoch 14; V. Conclusion; Ida Fröhlich: Giants and Demons; I. Demonic Traits of the Watchers; II. Demonic Traits of the Giants; III. Naming the Sons of the Watchers: Gibbōrîm; IV. Genesis 6:1-4 and the Book of Watchers; Matthew Goff: The Sons of the Watchers in the Book of Watchers and the Qumran Book of Giants: Contexts and Prospects; I. Introduction: Questions, Contexts and Prospects; II. The Giants in the Book of Watchers. III. The Giants in the Qumran Book of GiantsIV. The Fate of the Giants; V. Conclusion; Loren T. Stuckenbruck: The Book of Giants among the Dead Sea Scrolls: Considerations of Method and a New Proposal on the Reconstruction of 4Q530; I. Introduction; II. Methodological Considerations in Reconstructing the Qumran Book of Giants; III. A Sequenced Outline Derived from Extant Dead Sea Fragments; IV. A Proposal for Reconstructing the Remaining Length of 4Q530; V. Conclusion. Dieser Band ist das Ergebnis einer Tagung in München im Juni 2014, die sich mit Riesen in der henochischen Tradition und vor allem im qumranischen Gigantenbuch beschäftigte. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit dem Thema der Riesen in verschiedenen antiken Kontexten, einschließlich der hebräischen Bibel, den Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer und dem antiken Mesopotamien 5. The giant as the defeated pastIII. A Transition to the Early Jewish Giant; IV. Conclusion; Samantha Newington: Greek Titans and Biblical Giants; Michael Tuval: "Συναγωγὴ γιγάντων" (Prov 21:16): The Giants in the Jewish Literature in Greek; I. The Giants in the LXX; II. The Wisdom of Solomon, 3 Maccabees, Baruch, 3 Baruch, Ben Sira, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs; III. Pseudo-Eupolemus; IV. The Sibylline Oracles; V. Philo of Alexandria; VI. Flavius Josephus; VII. Summary and Conclusions.
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