[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Qumran, Israel,
1947, 20 miles east of Jerusalem at this ancient
site in the Judean desert, Bedouin shepherds stumbled upon
an extraordinary discovery. JULYE BIDMEAD: The Dead
Sea is surrounded by caves. And as young teenage
boys would do, they threw a rock
into the cave, heard the sound of breaking
pots, [POTS SHATTER] came back the next day,
climbed into the cave, and what did they find? They found huge clay jars. ANDREW COLLINS:
Inside the storage jars were ancient
texts, which very quickly they came to
realize that these were incredibly important. ROBERT CARGILL:
In these scrolls, we find biblical manuscripts,
copies of the Bible that are 1,000 years older
than any previously known copy of the Bible, as well as a
treasure trove of documents that we had never seen before. NARRATOR: Archaeologists were
surprised to find that whoever collected the Dead Sea Scrolls
considered the Book of Enoch to be of vital
importance, preserving 11 different manuscripts,
including versions never seen in modern times. Also found were fragments
of another work attributed to Enoch, the Book of Giants. Some parts of this text
included in the Dead Sea Scrolls had been lost for centuries. And many scholars believe
the stories contained within the Book of Giants
were written before even the Book of Genesis. It expounds on Genesis
6 verses 1 through 4. When the story is begun,
that the Watchers descended upon Earth and took
wives from Earth women, from human women, and their
offspring were Giants. ANDREW COLLINS:
The Book of Giants is about the Nephilim,
the sons of the Watchers. It's about their lives,
their conversations. And they realize
that they are evil. NARRATOR: According
to the Book of Giants, the Nephilim were guilty
of horrific crimes, including slaughtering humans
and feasting on their flesh. God ultimately decides
the Earth must be cleansed and chooses one man to
restart humanity anew, Noah, the great grandson of Enoch. In the Bible, Noah, the son
of a shepherd named Lamech, and his wife Batenosh,
was chosen by God because of his blameless piety. But when the Dead Sea
Scrolls were discovered, religious scholars
were shocked to find a much different and
potentially older version of the story of Noah. The Lamech scroll
documents that Noah became the chosen one
before he was born and his father was not Lamech. When Noah was born, the father
Lamech was gone at the time. However, the wife of
Lamech knew immediately something was up with
Noah because he didn't look like a normal human being. [BABY WHIMPERS] He is described as having
skin so white it was radiant. His hair was white like wool. His father, Lamech, says, "He
has the ways of the Watchers. When he blinked, his eyes
lit up the whole house." This does not sound
like a human being. The boy looked
completely different than Lamech's other children. And Lamech said to
his wife, Batenosh, this can't be my son
because I was away too long. You know, it doesn't fit
with the nine months. And Lamech goes for
advice to his father, who was the Biblical Methuselah. Methuselah goes to his
father, which is Enoch. Enoch says, "The
Guardians of the Sky have inseminated Batenosh
without touching her sexually. He should accept
this boy as his own and should give him
the name of Noah, because the Guardians of the Sky
have decided Noah is the father of the coming generation." So, in that case, proven
in the Dead Sea Scrolls, we know for sure there was
an artificial insemination.
