The publisher Simon & Schuster’s website has Haze’s bio as, “a researcher of ancient manuscripts and alternative history, exploring and documenting his findings on lost cities and the myths of the pre-diluvian world.”
Graham Hancock’s site has it as, “author of conspiracy theories, lost civilizations, ancient aliens, ancient giants and the globalist plans of the New World Order.”
Due to the title of the book, The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America, some key questions are: what is the usage of the vague, generic, subjective, multi-usage and modern English word, “giants” in English Bibles? What is Xaviant Haze’s usage? Do those two usages agree?
Fascinatingly, I have asked those key questions to literally hundreds of people who go on and on (and on and on [and on and on]) about, “giants” and 99% cannot even reply.
Such questions are key since, ironically and likely with pun intended, Haze begins the book by writing, “Giant gratitude to my wife…” thus showing that the term is multi-usage even within one single text.
Yet, even though the term giants appears in the book 346 times, we are never told his usage—or rather, usages—what we get is, “giant stories…reports of giants…the mystery of the giants…Giant Skeletons…Giant respect…giant thanks…” and on it goes.
Writing in such a vaguely generically subjectively multi-usage manner has two affects: 1) it forces the reader to have to attempt to discern the usage at any given usage and 2) it allows the author to make assertions and correlate things that my not go together due to employing a usus loquendi: referring to the usage of terms which may differ from technical meanings/definitions—the term giants is a flaccid designator.
Not surprisingly, Xaviant Haze notes upfront that he found, “over four hundred years of newspaper accounts from the United States.” I filled a chapter of my book Nephilim and Giants: Believe It or Not!: Ancient and Neo-Theo-Sci-Fi Tall Tales with such newspaper accounts and they are typically exactly what newspaper accounts are, which are reports: so and so claims to have found thus and such on this day yet, without any follow-up. I also do not go by that if it is in the news then, by golly, it must be true.
Some include claims that, wouldn’t ya know it?!, a giant human skeleton was found but got washed away in a flashflood—or some such explanation/excuse why there is no evidence—and some that I was able to follow up on concluded that the bones were examined by qualified persons and were found to be whale, dinosaur, pachyderm, etc.—see, “Appendix: Review of Adrienne Mayor’s The First Fossil Hunters” in my book What Does the Bible Say About Giants and Nephilim? A Styled Giantology and Nephilology.
In order to get to my context, Nephilim, we actually need to go all the way to the conclusion of Haze’s book, wherein he wrote:
Now that you have reviewed the evidence for a former race of giants in North America, I invite you to consider both their legends and their reality. There are legends of giants in many cultures, such as the Titans of Greece or Goliath in the Bible. In fact, the Bible has several references to giants, known as the Rephaim, Anakim, Zuzim, Sepherim, and Nephilim, as in the following quote from Numbers 13:32–33:
“The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
The Hebrew behind that version is, “Nephilim, the sons of Anak, which come of the Nephilim” which is an odd version since typically it is understood that they (ensure you ask who they are who stated that) were asserting that Anakim were related to Nephilim.
From this, we get the idea that, at least in this case, Haze’s usage of giants is something vaguely generic about subjectively unusual height of some unknown level above the parochial average (and yes, that is how useless the common parlance usage of that modern English word is).
Thus, note the claim, a former race of vaguely generically subjectively unusual height of some unknown level above the parochial average in North America, legends of vaguely generically subjectively unusual height of some unknown level above the parochial average in many cultures, etc.
Now as for vaguely generically subjectively unusual height of some unknown level above the parochial average in the Bible, let us review:
Rephaim: the only contextually relevant thing we are told about them is that they were, “tall” (Deut 2) subjective to the average Israelite male who was 5.0-5.3 ft. in those days.
Anakim: they were like a clan of the Rephaim tribe so the same applies to them.
Zuzim: this is merely an a.k.a. for Rephaim.
Sepherim: this is not even a word.
Nephilim: The dirty little secret is that since we have no reliable physical description of Nephilim then their height is a non-issue and that alone debunks 99% of un-biblical Nephilology—the modern branch of which is just un-biblical neo-theo sci-fi tall-tales.
But what of Numbers 13:32–33? Well, anyone who appeals to it (as 100% of pop-Nephilologists do and exclusively so since they have no other way to assert giant Nephilim) needs to mention that they are relying on:
1. One single unreliable sentence
2. From strictly non-LXX versions (since that version’s version of that verse doesn’t even mention Anakim)
3. Of an unreliable “evil report”
4. By 10 unreliable guys
5. Whom God rebuked—to death
6. Who made five mere assertions unbacked by even one single other verse in the whole Bible
7. Who contradicted Moses, Cable, Joshua, God, and the rest of the whole entire Bible
8. And now Haze needs to invent un-biblical tall-tales about how Nephilim got past the flood, any of which will imply that God failed, must have missed the loophole you figured out, the flood was much of a waste, etc., etc., etc.
I could go on but see my post Chapter sample: On the Post Flood Nephilim Proposal.
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