Kabbalist and leading medieval Talmud scholar Moshe Ben Nackhman-Ramban (Nachmanides) was concealing the “Nephilim secret” from non-Jews and that the ancient astronaut theory derived from Ramba
"Agrest, himself a proponent of the ancient astronaut belief that human origins are extraterrestrial, wrote in an article of the November/December 1994 issue of Ancient Skies that Kabbalist and leading medieval Talmud scholar Moshe Ben Nackhman-Ramban (Nachmanides) was concealing the “Nephilim secret” from non-Jews and that the ancient astronaut theory derived from Ramban.
“Ramban’s answer is to be understood only as it was used by the Talmudists,” Agrest wrote. “When one of them did not want to reveal a secret or even to discuss any problem, they used the sentence: Urwa parakh. That means, “Look, a crow has flown by” and it was not dishonourable. Ramban’s answer confirmed the assertion that Ramban had always considered that the deep cabbala ideas were only for the chosen ones.”
The alleged secret centres on a Talmudic or Kabbalist interpretation of a verse from the Bible, Genesis 6:4, which says that the Sons of God (perhaps angels) bore children with the daughters of Adam, resulting in strange offspring, interpreted either as giants or fallen/mighty ones (Hebrew: Nephilim; Greek: γίγαντες). Mainstream Biblical scholars seem split down the middle between the two interpretations (giants or angelic beings). One side says angels can’t procreate, the other says they can. While Ramban’s interpretation might have truth to it, it seems his conclusions, in light of what the Kabbalah teaches (divination, necromancy, etc.), are intentional lies.
Although Agrest, Zecharia Sitchin, and Erich von Däniken may be credited with developing the ancient astronaut theory (also ancient alien, paleocontact theory), Agrest may be correct that it actually originates with Ramban (or with the Talmud/Kabbalah).
“I first read Rambam’s impressive commentary in Israel two months after my lecture at the Ancient Astronaut Society’s 20th Anniversary World Conference in 1993, where I had publicly expressed the same ideas about the meaning of Genesis 6:4,” wrote Agrest. “Had I known about Ramban’s commentary 35 years ago when I wrote the article The Astronauts of Yore, where I used Genesis 6:4 in favour of the paleocontact hypothesis, I would have called it the ‘Hypothesis of Ramban’. It is not too late to do it now.”
Ramban’s commentary on Genesis 6:4 reads:
“But the Midrash ‘Pyrkey Rabbi Eliezer’ (chap. 22), which is mentioned in the Talmud treatise ‘Juma’ explains the word Hanphilim as Messengers fallen from the sky. That is the best commentary for the verse Genesis VI, 4. But to explain the secret contained in this verse, it is necessary to write very much.”
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