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Posted on 02/01/2026 12:18:05 PM PST by MarlonRando
The papyrus describes encounters with the Shosu people, said to stand 'four cubits or five cubits' tall, up to eight feet in height.
Supporters of the theory say the text provides rare non-biblical corroboration of Old Testament accounts of giants, which appear repeatedly beyond the familiar story of David and Goliath.
An Egyptian cubit measured roughly 20 inches, meaning the Shosu would have towered over most people of the era.
The papyrus takes the form of a letter written during a time of war, detailing hostile terrain and military challenges.
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Five talents equals one nephilim. Ha.
I’ve heard a talent can be about 200 pounds so 5 talents would be a 1000 pound nephilim. ha. Id avoid him/her/it
It's also worth noting that there were 2 cubits: a common cubit (18") and a royal cubit (21"). Other nations had their own cubit standards that were not calibrated to the Egyptian standard, and also had the common/royal distinction. So it's important in an article mentioning cubits to specify which cubit was in use.
You are correct that the descriptions we get widely vary. From what I understand, the definition of a talent depended upon the time and place it was being spoken of. From the Catholic Bible Dictionary:
TALENT An ancient unit of weight and value, normally that of metals such as silver and gold. The Hebrew talent (kikkar) was about 757 pounds or 35 kilograms (1 Kgs 9:14; 20:39).
The Greek talent (talanton) was also a large amount of money, but the unit varied greatly depending on the time, place, and metal (Matt 18:24; 25:15-18) 18:24; 25:15-18).
, Yes, with all of the construction projects the Egyptians were involved in, you think they would be pretty bright about standardizing their weights and measures
exactly!!! I’ve heard around 200 pounds and you found over 700 pounds! I’m assuming no one knows for sure. Things get lost in thousands of years
Skeletal remains ?
The same thing can be similarly said about a “cubit”. It is widely believed to be the span of a man’s arm, from his elbow to his fingertips. There’s a lot of difference, however, between a cubit as measured, for example, by Billy Barty’s arm and Shaquille O’Neil’s arm.
They find bones of giants, the Smithsonian comes in, and you never see it again.
They were metric cubits..,,
“My car gets forty rods to the hogsheads and that’s the way I likes it”
I need to adjust my glasses. I read Epstein scroll. 🙄🤪
I will just leave this right here: There is a giant in Kandahar, Afghanistan. No one wants to talk about. It ate humans. Our military knows about it.
Yes.
I guess it worked because everyone has an arm? dunno
Well, most people in biblical times were quite short, around 5’4”—5’5”. As long as they didn’t give the job of going around measuring things to Goliath or someone like that, it would probably would have been pretty consistent. Too, I’m guessing at the beginning of a building project, there would be an agreed upon standard cubit and they’d cut a few sticks at that length to use throughout that project. Or maybe there was an official standard that was already mandated locally. Something like that. Even as far back as the time of Hammurabi, they had building codes.
yes, they were freakishly clever those Egyptians
I used to have a good old book WORD KEYS WHICH UNLOCK SCRIPTURE. In it, the definition of a “giant” was “Mighty Men of Stature” or warriors considered the equivalent of “demi-gods” by the ancients.
You will find many of them in the Iliad.
you mean there WAS a giant in Kandahar
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