Joshua Valiant (Chronicles of the Nephilim) (36 page)

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If this is the case, then the Septuagint translators misunderstood the cubit of the Hebrew text as being the smaller cubit, when in fact it was the larger Egyptian cubit. They would then be translating the number incorrectly downward.

[52]
Edward Frank
Wente and Edmund S. Meltzer, vol. 1,
Letters from Ancient Egypt
, Writings from the Ancient World, 108 (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1990). This measurement assumes that longer Egyptian cubit.

[53]
Antiquities 5.125. Flavius Josephus and William
Whiston,
The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged
(Peabody: Hendrickson, 1987).

[54]
Josephus,
Antiquities
18.4.5.

[55]
Pliny the Elder,
The Natural History
7.16, ed. John Bostock (Medford, MA: Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, 1855), 2157.

[56]
Herodotus (ca. 430 B.C.)
The Histories
1.67–68.
Quoted in
Mayor, Adrienne (2011-07-27).
The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and
Roman Times
(New in Paper) (Kindle Locations 4672-4678). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

[57]
Pausanias, Guide to Greece, 8.29.1-4 referenced in
Mayor, Adrienne (2011-07-27). The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times (New in Paper) (Kindle Locations 4770-4778). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.