The Qumran texts that make up its so-called "Book of Giants" seem to offer, for various faiths, a more complete picture of the beginnings of evil than perhaps its rather truncated counterpart — the biblical Eden story — is able to give. The Genesis story we read today, as is well known, was greatly altered by ancient Deuteronomist scribes and historians (and others) according to their own religious and political agendas and does not, therefore, represent the pristine form of whatever may have been its primordial message. And while the Book of Giants cannot, by any means, heal that breach, it does begin to answer questions, fill in gaps, and make more clear, perhaps, what was originally intended.