The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim (36 page)

1.
Wilhelm Gesenius,
Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar
, 2nd English ed., Rev. in accordance with the 28th German ed. (1909) by A.E. Cowley. Edited and enlarged by E. Kautzsch. P. 399.

2.
Ibid.

3.
William F. Albright,
Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan
(1968).

Chapter
3

1.
Polybius,
The Histories
, Introduction p. xiv. Loeb ed., Col. H.J. Edwards, C.B., W.R. Paton trans., Bk.16.14.

2.
Raphael Patai, and Merlin Stone,
The Hebrew Goddess
(Wayne State University Press, 1990), p. 139.

3.
Fielder, David.
Jesus Christ, Sun of God: Ancient Cosmology and Early Christian Symbolism
(Quest Books, 1993), p. 128.

4.
G.A. Wainwright, “The Origin of Amūn,”
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
, Vol. 49, December 1963, pp. 21-23.

5.
Pyramid Texts, § 446, transl. R.O. Faulkner.

6.
Coffin Texts, spell 223, transl. R.O. Faulkner.

7.
F.L. Cross, ed.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

8.
Irenaeus,
Against Heresies: Book I, Chapter XVIII
. Passages from Moses, which the heretics pervert to the support of their hypothesis.

9.
Ibid.

Chapter 4

1.
George Smith,
The Chaldean Account of Genesis
(1876).

2.
According to Wikipedia (
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-liqe-unninni
)
, Sîn-lēqi-unninni was an incantation/exorcist priest (mashmashshu) who lived in Mesopotamia in the period between 1300
BC
and 1000
BC
. He is the compiler of the best preserved version of the
Epic of Gilgamesh. His name is listed in the text itself, which is unusual for works written in cuneiform. His version is known by its incipit, or first line, “He who saw the deep” or “The onewho saw the Abyss.” It is unknown how different his version is from the earlier texts. The only time when Sin-lēqi-unninni narrates the story in first person is in the prologue. His version includes Utnapishtim’s story of the Flood in Tablet XI and in Tablet XII the Sumerian Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld. Sîn-lēqi-unninni’s name means “Sin (the Moon God) is one who accepts my prayer.” It is also sometimes transcribed, albeit less probably, as “Sîn-liqe-unninni,” meaning “O Sin! Accept my prayer.”

3.
A.R. George,
The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic
, Introduction, critical edition and cuneiform, p. 27.

4.
Jeffrey H. Tigay,
The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic
(Philadelphia, Penna.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982).

5.
Theodor H. Gaster,
Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament
(New York: Harper & Row, 1969).

6.
Barbara C. Sproul,
Primal Myths
(New York: HarperCollins, 1979).

7.
Ovid,
The Metamorphoses
, Horace Gregory, transl. (New York: Viking Press, 1958).

8.
Snorri Sturluson,
The Prose Edda
, Jean I. Young, transl. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1954).

9.
Hugh Miller,
The Testimony of the Rocks. Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
(Boston, Mass.: Gould and Lincoln, 1857).

Chapter 5

1.
Scott Noegel, and Brannon M. Wheeler.
Historical Dictionary of Prophets in Islam and Judaism
. (Lanham, MD.: Scarecrow Press, 2003).

2.
A. Kuhrt, “Berossus’s Babyloniaca and Seleucid Rule in Babylonia,” in A. Kuhrt and S. Sherwin-White, eds.
Hellenism in the East
(Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1987), pg. 55f.

3.
“An Introduction to the Grail Research & Esoteric Writings of Boyd Rice,”
www.thevesselofgod.com
.

4.
Boyd Rice,
www.thevesselofgod.com
.

5.
Interview with Bill Birnes.

6.
Chuck Missler,
Alien Encounters: The Secret Behind the UFO Phenomenon
(Koinonia House, 2003).

7.
Tim Lahaye,
Charting the End Times
(Harvest House Publishers, 2001), pg. 32-33.

8.
Life in the Universe: Essays by Carl Sagan
, unabridged edition (University Press Audiobooks, 1998).

9.
Richard Vizzutti, “The Return of the Stargods,” author’s Website,
www.stargods.org
, 2003.

10.
Will Offley, “David Icke and the Politics of Madness: Where the New Age meets the Third Reich,” article for the political Research Associates, 2000.

11.
David Icke’s Website,
www.davidicke.com
.

12.
Flavius Josephus,
The Jewish Wars
, 75 A.D., 2.9.2-4. This passage from Josephus can also be cross-referenced with the New Testament passage of Luke 13:1-3.

13.
Philo,
On The Embassy of Gauis Book XXXVIII
299-305.

14.
From Walter A. Elwell’s
Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology
.

15.
Joe Soucheray, KSTP AM1500 talk radio host.

16.
Josef F. Blumrich,
The Spaceships of Ezekiel
(Bantam Books, 1974).

Chapter 6

1.
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is a sermon written by American theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached on July 8, 1741, in Enfield, Connecticut. Like Edwards’s other sermons and writings, it combines vivid imagery of the Christian concept of Hell with observations of the secular world and citations of scripture. It remains Edwards’s most famous written work, and is widely studied both among American Christians and historians, due to the glimpse it provides into the theology of the Great Awakening of c. 1730-1755.

2.
“Were the Nephilim Extraterrestrials,” Christian Answers Website,
www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c036.html
.

3.
John A. Keel,
UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse
(Iluminet Press, 1996).

4.
Dr. Pierre Guerin, “Thirty Years After Kenneth Arnold,”
Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 25, No. 1
, January/February 1979, pp. 13-14.

5.
G.H. Pember,
Earth’s Earliest Ages and Their Connection with Modern Spiritualism and Theosophy
(1876).

6.
John Heise, “Akkadian Cuneiform, Chapter II, Mosepotamia.” Netherlands Institute for Space Research website.
www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/Welcome_mesopotamia.html
, 1996.

7.
R.A. Boulay,
Flying Serpents and Dragons: The Story of Mankind’s Reptilian Past
(The Book Tree, 1999), p. 80.

8.
Boulay,
Flying Serpents and Dragons
, chapter on the Ruling Gods of the Sumerian Pantheon, 1990,
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/serpents_dragons/boulay01e.htm
.

9.
Craig Hines,
Gateway of the Gods
(Numina Media Arts, 2007), p. 74.

10.
Ronald S. Hendel, “When the Sons of God Cavorted With the Daughters of Men,”
Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls
, Hershel Shanks, ed. (Vintage Books, 1993), p. 172.

11.
Washington Irving,
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
(New York: Collins, 1838).

Chapter 7

1.
Averil Cameron and Stuart G. Hall.
Life of Constantine
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999).

2.
Edward Gibbon, “Gibbon’s ‘Age of Constantine’ and the Fall of Rome”, 1969, pp. 71-96.

3.
Richards, Jeffrey,
The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979).

4.
Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy,
The Jesus Mysteries: Was the “Original Jesus” a Pagan God?
(Three Rivers Press, 2001).

5.
Egbert Richter-Ushanas,
The Induand the Rg-Veda, 2
^nd
edition
(India: Motilal Banarsidass, 2001), p. 16.

Chapter 8

1.
As found in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament.

2.
Noah Kramer, Samuel Maier, and John Maier,
Myths of Enki, the Crafty God
(New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).

3.
Carroll, Robert T (1994-2009).
The Skeptic’s Dictionary: Zecharia Sitchin and The Earth Chronicles
(John Wiley & Sons),
www.skepdic.com/sitchin.html
.

4.
Corey Kilgannon, “Origin of the Species, From an Alien View,”
New York Times
, January 8, 2010,
www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/nyregion/10alone.html
. Retrieved October 29, 2010: “Mr. Sitchin has been called silly before—by scientists, historians and archaeologists who dismiss his hypotheses as pseudoscience and fault their underpinnings—his translations of ancient texts and his understanding of physics.”

5.
Michael S. Heiser, PhD, Hebrew and Semitic Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
www.sitchiniswrong.com/letter/letter.htm
.

6.
I, Mueller, L.S. Grinstein, and P.J. Campbell,
Women of Mathematics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook
(New York: Greenwood Press, 1987).

7.
Kathleen Wider,
Women Philosophers in the Ancient Greek World: Donning the Mantle
(Indiana University Press, 1986), pp. 49-50.

8.
A Study of History Volume XII Reconsiderations
(London: Oxford University Press, 1961). Also read more at
phoenicia.org/ugarbibl.html#ixzz1VJiwUi6m.

9.
Michael S. Heiser,
Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry, & Writings
, Tremper Longman and Peter Enns, eds. (InterVarsity Press, 2008).

10.
Michael S. Heiser, The Divine Council Website,
www.thedivinecouncil.com
, 2010.

11.
Craig Hines,
Gateway of the Gods
(Numina Media Arts, 2007), p. 62ff.

12.
Derek Kinder Tyndale, “Genesis” in
Old Testament Commentaries
(IVP Academic, March 13, 2008).

13.
An Aramaic text reads “Watchers” here (J.T. Milik,
Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4
[Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976], p. 167).

14.
Upon Ardis. Or, “in the days of Jared” (R.H. Charles, ed. and trans.,
The Book of Enoch
[Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893], p. 63).

15.
Mt. Armon, or Mt. Hermon, derives its name from the Hebrew word
herem
, a curse (Charles, p. 63).

16.
Hines,
Gateway of the Gods
.

17.
Brown, Driver, Briggs, and Gesenius. “Hebrew Lexicon entry for Tamiym.” “The Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon.”
www.searchgodsword.org/lex/heb/view.cgi?number=8549
.

18.
Companion Bible
(Oxford University Press), Appendix 26.