by Jacob Mooney | Dec 28, 2025 | Medieval, Sources
Eutychius of Alexandria—Sa‘id b. al-Bitriq (c. 877–940 CE)—was a Christian Arab patriarch, physician, and historian who lived under Abbasid rule, mostly in Baghdad and later in Fustat (Old Cairo). As patriarch of Alexandria in the Melkite (Chalcedonian) tradition, he...
by Jacob Mooney | Dec 28, 2025 | Tracing the Giants Series
Origins and History Enoch is mentioned in the Bible’s Book of Genesis as the father of Methuselah and the grandfather of Noah. He is said to have lived for 365 years before God escorted him into heaven. The book attributed to him is a series of texts believed to...
by Jacob Mooney | Dec 28, 2025 | DEBUNKING
At the risk of sounding strange for a non-JW researcher: on Genesis 6, Jehovah’s Witnesses are much closer to the oldest Jewish and Christian reading of the Nephilim than many evangelicals today. They see the “sons of God” as rebellious angels, the Nephilim as their...
by Jacob Mooney | Dec 28, 2025 | Tracing the Giants Series
When I first stumbled into Genesis 6 as a teenager, it felt like I had found a crack in the floor of my Sunday School world. Who are these “sons of God”? Who are the Nephilim? Why does the Bible open that door and then move on so quickly? Ancient Jews asked the same...
by Jacob Mooney | Dec 28, 2025 | Tracing the Giants Series
If we start with many of our English Bible translations, it can sound like the Bible clearly says the Nephilim were “giants.” But when we slow down and look at the Hebrew text itself, things are not that simple. The word nephilim appears only three times in the Old...
