However, led by Semjaza and Azazel, these angels succumbed to temptation, married human women, and fathered the Nephilim, described as beings of immense stature and extraordinary strength.

A note in the NAB describes them as “tall aboriginals” whom the Israelites likened to the Nephilim (mentioned below). Numbers 13:33 refers to them as “a race of giants.” Another note in ...

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world’s first major civilizations.