The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim By Scott Alan Roberts

Scott Alan Roberts Ø 2 Summary

The ancient books of Genesis and Enoch tell us that sprit beings known as the Watchers descended to the Earth had sex with women and begat a hybrid race of offspring known as the Nephilim Such tales are as old as humanity itself These histories and accounts of visitations and subseuent mixed blood alien human races comprise the bulk of the world's myths legends religions and superstitions The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim examines Elohim and the Bene Ha Elohim God and the Sons of GodThe Watchers UFOs extraterrestrials angels infiltrators and impregnatorsBiblical and apocryphal sources from Enoch to MosesThe role of the Fae Elves Elementals and ancient gods What if the old spiritualities and religions weren't just legends? What if there was something living and breathing beneath the surface a tangible interlinking of religious thought and spirituality science and myth inter dimensionality and cold hard fact? The Nephilim walked among us and still do today The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim

Really fascinating subject lots of interesting ideas here but I found the writing repetitive and some of the author's beliefs seemed odd in context The first part of this book worked best for me Roberts analyzes the biblical account of Eve's temptation in the garden of Eden putting an eye popping sexual spin on the tale I found this truly fascinating as it framed the story in an entirely new and surprisingly believable light Where the book lost my attention was towards the end where the author descends into the realm of the supernatural speculating that the Nephilim are around even today although in spiritual form As a non believer in ghosts andor demons this wasn't really anything I found all that compelling An okay read for those interested in the subject but don't expect a lot of detail here and you may want to consider borrowing this one rather than buying it English Originally published at BethsBookReviewscomFirst of all the author works from the idea that the bible is a historically accurate document From that view there were uotes from it on nearly every page Fine I could deal with that What I absolutely could not deal with was the propaganda about Moses and the Egyptian pharaohs The author seemed to just ignore all archaeological evidence entirely and go into some sort of fantasy scenarioI had to abandon this after that section The bible uotes became increasingly oppressive and the accomanying evidence just too far fetched It wasn't even mildly amusing enough to pretend that it was science fictionFrankly this mixture of pseudoscience and religion was just too bizarre The best I can say for it is that it was a nicely bound trade paperback with a readable font Give it a pass Really don't even crack it open just step away English The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim was well researched and written The author explores the obscure passages in the books of Genesis Enoch and Jubilees He poses multiple explanations for the earth inhabiting giants including the possible connection between angels and aliens He uotes other scholars and scripture while explaining his theories Don't know if I agree with Mr Roberts but give him credit for opening my Christian mind to other Biblical explanations I used the book for research I am an novelist and am writing a second book for my Halo of the Damned series about present day nephilim Dina Rae English I skimmed this because I was intrigued by the nutty title The author is very careful not to let facts get in the way of his pet idea English I give these delusional flights of fancy one star as a matter of course but I can usually give them two or three stars for the enjoyment of reading them In this case however The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim wasn't even fun to read It's dull repetitious and the Nephilim don't even show up until about halfway throughThe book reads like a high school essay written by a student who throws together a bunch of multisyllable words in an effort to appear smart but who in the end says nothing And says nothing in the most illiterate wayScott Alan Roberts claims to have attended seminary though tellingly he never received a degree but has only the most tenuous grasp of theology I'll only bother with one example He thinks the Immaculate Conception refers to Jesus Christ It doesn't It's the doctrine that Mary was born without the taint of Original SinIt's hard to believe that Roberts ever graduated high school much less a college Not only does he misunderstand theological doctrine he also misunderstands common English words Mr Roberts owning a dictionary is not enough; one must read it as wellA few examplesUses dissemble in the sense of disassemble and tenant when he means tenet confuses implicit with explicit and believes inviolate means in violation of Not once but several times in the bookMore? There're nonsensical phrases like empirically appointed and superficialities of God and His angels Or oddly phrased ones like to do what seems so common sensed to humansAnd then there's pure BS like this Of course there is very little of this that can be proven by physical evidence so it once again it is all governed by the tone of what you choose to believe And it all sounds so fanciful and the stuffs of dark imaginings it is no wonder the scientific community shuns the slightest notion p 226 Or this whopper And as with the scientific research of the ascendancy of mankind there are no uantitative facts that link it all together simply stepping stones from one discovery to the next p 229This is an awful book in all respects and painful to read Avoid itIMO Sitchin remains the go to author for your pseudo scientific delusional theories English

Wanted to get out of my comfort zone a bit and did Interesting but seemed to get in gear reverse get in gear turn repeat and so on The Nephilim is a fascinating study and here you have one man's composite of his thoughts and studies on this subject That is all English Books such as the Rise and Fall of the Nephilim create a problem for the modern generalist reader On the one hand they represent an interesting new reading of the age old story of the children of the biblical WatchersElohimAngels and human women weren't there any female Watchers??? but they also offer an interesting re formation of an old myth for a contemporary world The ancient alien slant on the Watchers and the Nephilim feeds directly into urban legend and a new world mythos as people are now attempting to re imagine historymyth for a new and globalized world Mr Roberts' book specifically is well written and carefully argued though there a plenty of evidentiary leaps that have had to be taken since there is no evidence other than ancient texts Biblical extra Biblical Jewish Sumerian Canaanite Hindu etc Books such as Rise and Fall of the Nephilim should be taken less with a grain of salt and with a uarry of this They are interesting but only from the standpoint of entertainment Deeply speculative these gnostic dementia explorations of the human and non human past must be approached with caution and should never be confused with genuine history science or even scholarship If the reader can approach such books in this manner a great deal of entertainment of the almost pornographic variety may be had Highly Recommended for those interested in Ancient Aliens and Biblical mythology or fringe religious studies 4 out of 5 stars Nephilim lost one star because the text dragged a bit in the middle and there were too many cute pop culture references as well as too many personal anecdotes When writing a faux scholarly work it is important to remove ones self except in the introduction from the text as much as possible this Mr Roberts failed to do English I thought this book was just okay It had it's really good intriguing moments and a lot of boring parts It also got repetitive in places I wish that the author would of added pronunciations for some of the Hebrew Egyptian etc words on the page possibly on the bottom of the page instead of having to flip all the way to the back of the book English Excellent book written with a huge passion in what Scott has learned through his years as an expert of Biblical Scripture I interviewed Scott and was completely blown away by his ambition behind this topic English Interesting theory English