The figure of the giant has haunted the literatures of the Ancient Mediterranean world, from the Greek Gigantomachy and other Aegean epic literatures to the biblical contexts of the Ancient Near East.
All that is overgrown.
In The Last of the Rephaim, Brian Doak argues that the giants of the Hebrew Bible are a politically, theologically, and historiographically generative group, and through their oversized bodies, readers gain insight into central aspects of Israel\'s symbolic universe.
The figure of the giant has haunted the literatures of the Ancient Mediterranean world, from the Greek Gigantomachy and other Aegean epic literatures to the biblical contexts of the Ancient Near East