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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.