Giants in Those Days: Folklore, Ancient History, and Nationalism"'Traditional' (i.e. medieval) gigantology, both scholarly and - to the extent that it existed - popular, was rooted in biblical and classical texts, and portrayed giants as depraved, evil, and godless: very different from what we see in Rabelais. Dante developed them as denizens of Hell. Giants were primarily antediluvian, and were generally understood as a race distinct from (or debased from) humanity. Key biblical giants included the nephilim (offspring of the 'sons of God and daughters of men' in Genesis 6) and the anakim (indigenous opposition to the settlement of Canaan in Numbers and Deuteronomy). |
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... story of cause and effect . As was noted earlier , the internal contradictions of antediluvian history in Genesis no longer perplex modern scholars , who explain the " sons of God " story as a survival of ancient poly- theistic beliefs ...
... story of cause and effect . As was noted earlier , the internal contradictions of antediluvian history in Genesis no longer perplex modern scholars , who explain the " sons of God " story as a survival of ancient poly- theistic beliefs ...
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... story , noting that the Babylonian author had told a very similar tale . In fact , the fragmen- tary surviving form of the real Berossos's narrative more closely resembles the tale recounted by Utnapishtim in Gilgamesh , but con- tains ...
... story , noting that the Babylonian author had told a very similar tale . In fact , the fragmen- tary surviving form of the real Berossos's narrative more closely resembles the tale recounted by Utnapishtim in Gilgamesh , but con- tains ...
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... story of Paris and the actual state of Lemaire's first book probably reflects an all too hasty welding of Annian and Trojan segments under the pressure of a deadline . Jacques Abélard may well be correct in believing that Lemaire ...
... story of Paris and the actual state of Lemaire's first book probably reflects an all too hasty welding of Annian and Trojan segments under the pressure of a deadline . Jacques Abélard may well be correct in believing that Lemaire ...
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Annius of Viterbo the Flood | 98 |
4 | 116 |
Rabelaiss Two Gigantologies | 185 |
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