Ogias the Giant

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Ogias the Giant, also known as the Book of Giants is one of the books from the New Testament apocrypha which concerned the Old Testament. The text relates how before the great flood, there was a giant named Ogias who fought a great dragon.

It is thought to have been based on the Book of Enoch, itself based on an obscure passage from Genesis concerning Nephilim. The book concerns itself with filling in the details about the giants that the book of Enoch misses out. The book itself was well travelled, and exists in Syriac, Greek, Persian, Sogdian, Uyghur, and Arabic, although each version is somewhat distorted incorporating more local myths.

The contents are generally thought to be a fantasy based on Jewish mysticism.

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