![]() ![]() ![]() In such accounts, God sends the Great Deluge to purge the world of these creatures their bodies are destroyed, yet their peculiar souls survive, thereafter roaming the earth as demons. During the late Second Temple period the biblical giants were sometimes considered the monstrous offspring of fallen angels and human women. In the period immediately preceding the composition of the New Testament, some sects of Judaism, as well as many Christian Church Fathers, identified these same "sons of God" as fallen angels. The idea of fallen angels derived from the Book of Enoch, a Jewish pseudepigraph, or the assumption that the " sons of God" ( בני האלוהים) mentioned in Genesis 6:1–4 are angels. Fountain of the Fallen Angel (1877), by Ricardo Bellver. ![]()
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