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"Deidre? " Brian said, looking in her direction to see if she was thinking along thesame line.She smiled slyly. "I'd say option number three is that the abductions—the`cohabitation' as the Father put it so delicately, never stopped—these aliens, or divinebeings, just kept doing it.""Precisely, " Brian said ominously. "And I'd agree."Deidre elaborated, "The abduction stories of `star men' coming down and havingsex with human women have a continuous history over millennia in dozens of culturesworldwide. The comparative mythology suggests that it's never stopped. It takes littleimagination to link the ongoing abduction circumstance with the sons of God in Genesis6. What its purpose might be, I have no idea. I'm surprised, Colonel, that you didn't makethe connection. ""I'm an expert on what we might call at this point `alien relations,' not abductions;that's why you're here. I still don't see a connection," he resisted. "Again, look at that littlegray body—does that look like it could produce one of those giants? After all, it isn't anatomicallycapable of reproductionthere aren't any sexual organs!""Well, there is one immediately apparent anatomical congruence between thespecimens we saw and the nephilim, and then, by extension, the sons of God," Brianoffered."What is that?" inquired the Colonel."The hands and feet," Brian replied. "The corpses had six fingers and six toes. Weknow from the book of II Samuel 21, verse 20 that this was a distinctive feature of thePhilistine giants of the clan of the Rephaim—Goliath and his brothers.""Weird! " said Malcolm."Despite that anomaly, I think the Colonel makes a good point," Mark noted. "Itseems impossible that these puny gray beings could have been in a genetic line related tothese giant nephilim. It's unfortunate that we aren't told what these sons of God lookedlike in all these ancient texts.""That's not true," Father Benedict rebutted."You're kidding!" exclaimed Melissa."No, I'm not," the old priest replied tersely. "And the description found in anancient Dead Sea Scroll is an important link between the sons of God in Genesis 6 andthe extremely tall nephilim. To appreciate the scroll source that contains the description,you must realize that the book of Enoch, a book heavily used by the Dead Sea sect, givesthe rest of the story to the Genesis 6 incident. Enoch equates the sons of God with anotherterm used in the Hebrew Bible for heavenly beings the Watchers.""Never heard of it," said Neil."The Old Testament book of Daniel mentions them several times in the fourthchapter," he explained, "but you wouldn't catch it in an English translation. It's anotherAramaic word. That same chapter also gives us some insight into the heavenly hierarchyBrian has outlined, since it contains references to angelic beings as the `prince of Persia'and `the prince of Greece."""Does Daniel describe what the Watchers look like then?" Malcolm asked."No," Father Benedict answered, "but a description has survived in the one DeadSea Scroll fragment I mentioned." Father Benedict cleared his voice. "The text to whichI've alluded is a small fragment of a work entitled `The Testament of Amram.' Scrollsscholars also refer to it as 4QAmram, since it was discovered in Cave 4 of Qumran. The193