Thank you for the question on the Nephilim, “Was Joshua’s conquest in ancient Canaan the elimination of the last of the Nephilim giants?”
As one reads the Bible, one has to be careful of making assumptions about the Nephilim. Here are some thoughts for one’s consideration:
- It is faulty to think that the Nephilim lived through Noah’s Flood. I am not aware of any biblical text that speaks of the Nephilim after the Flood.
- It is an interpretative question on the nature of the Nephilim as being fallen angelic beings or whether the godly line of Seth intermarried with the line of Canaan.
- It is theoretically possible the wives of Noah’s three sons may carry genetically some of the “Nephilim” genes that enable the children born to them being as giants.
SUMMARY: The conquest by Joshua was not the complete elimination of the Canaanites into Promised Land. Thus, it is theoretically possible that some form of the “Nephilim” could have existed beyond the Joshua’s time and others lived beyond the Promised Land.
-Kingston