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Let’s Talk About ‘Noah’: Those Giant ‘Watchers’ Actually Have an Ancient History — mashable.com
Every week, Mashable presents “Let’s Talk About …,” a Monday-morning look back at the biggest, buzziest WTF moments from the weekend’s most talked-about new movies in wide release. If you haven’t seen the film, be warned: This doesn’t just contain spoilers — it is spoilers.
Those “Watcher” rock-monster things were crazy, right?
We’d been reading for weeks about the “giants” who played a huge part in Noah, Darren Aronofsky’s cinematic vision of the Biblical flood story. But nothing came close to hinting at what they turned out to be.
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The History Of NOAH’s Watchers, The Creatures That Scared The Hell Out of ILM http://badassdigest.com/2014/03/28/the-history-of-noahs-watchers-the-creatures-that-scared-the-hell-out-of-ilm/
The History Of NOAH’s Watchers, The Creatures That Scared The Hell Out of ILM
One of the best things about Judaism is how much scholars and rabbis like to argue about what things in the Hebrew Bible mean. It's cool, and very different from the rigidly defined dogma of too many Christian splinter groups. There are vast reams of literature and entire schools of thought about what different passages mean, why certain words are used and what the general intentions of sentence are. This is called the Midrash, and it's the sort of thing nerds obsessed with expanded universes and tie-in books and continuity will understand, as the Midrash takes into account extra-canonical sources like The Book of Enoch and The Book of Jubilees. While your average Baptist will plug up his ears before hearing a differing opinion on the Bible, a good Jew will go toe to toe with you using his understanding of Hebrew, history and metaphor.
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