Not a carnival of monsters; a sober walk through Scripture.
__Power Under Heaven: The Ethics of Rule in Biblical Giants__ asks what the Bible is doing with Nephilim, Rephaim, the Watchers, Og, and Goliath. It answers in the classic Jewish order of learning: Tanakh; Chazal and classic mefarshim; Zohar and Arizal with care; Second Temple literature as non-canonical context; Ancient Near Eastern philology and archaeology; modern science as analogy.

Menachem Clausen shows how Genesis 6 centers