"... The problem of evil and human suffering was apparently an important and popular topic for writers in Judaism during the closing centuries B.C.E. and the early first century C.E. Recent discoveries amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls attest that the people of the Qumran Community were concerned why the people of Israel, and perhaps humanity in general, were suffering. One such explanation for human suffering is detailed in the Watcher tradition that is found in 1 Enoch 1-36, the Book of Watchers. The Watcher tradition of 1 Enoch, considered by most scholars as an expansion of Genesis 6:1-4, tells the story of the origin of evil spirits. These spirits were a result of the sexual union of the bene elohim and human women, which produced giant offspring. Furthermore, the giant tradition of BW was taken up by several other Second Temple Period Jewish writings and further developed alongside an anthropology which assumed a human nature that is weak, corruptible, and subject to the manipulation of spiritual forces. However, this was not the only Jewish understanding of the problem of evil ... In what follows, I will present an alternative approach to the responsibility for human suffering articulated by a lone voice in the Alexandrian Diaspora during the first century C.E., Philo of Alexandria. Philo's understanding of human suffering differs considerably from the tradition set forth in the Watcher tradition ... it is difficult to determine whether Philo knew of the Watcher tradition as we have it in but it appears that he was aware of some form of the Fallen Angel tradition prevalent in Palestinian Judaism ..."