This is getting better with every post.
I agree with most scholars that "the text should be read metaphorically."
Otherwise, what difference might there be between so-called sacred texts and folklore/myth or fiction?
The fascinating thing about a close reading of the different religions is how similar they all are. As you have shown here and in the previous posts, there are many affinities and it is in these commonalities that peoples of the world should find common ground to solve their differences, gigantic, as they may seem.

the Giants were evil, sinful and violent and had to be destroyed