Les prodromes du déluge: Légendes araméennes de Qoumrân

Translation and commentary on the Aramaic fragments from Qumran (4Q 529-534), which include the remainders of legends about the period before the Flood, mainly about the wrongdoings of the Giants who were born from fallen angels and the daughters of men, and their condemnation. Since the « Book of the Giants » was included among the holy scriptures of Manichaeism, it has been translated into several languages. Traces of it have been found, for instance, in Turfan. This paper establishes their connection with the Aramaic original.