The Scottish explorer James Bruce was born today in 1730. In 1773 he returned from a voyage to Ethiopia with the first copy Europe had seen of the apocalyptic Hebrew text "The Book of Enoch".
Supposedly written by Noah's grandfather, the book descibes visions and visits to heaven, as well as the fall of a group of angels named the Watchers, who fathered the Nephilim - a race of giants - by mating with humans.
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