Post by beckrl on Aug 3, 2020 21:52:28 GMT
LEVIATHAN-RAHAB-LOTAN & TIAMAT
LEVIATHAN is described as a sea monster, sea dragon, and sea serpent. It is found in four old testament books given it descriptions.
Psalms 74: 13 “It was you who split open the sea by your power; you broke the heads of the monster in the waters. 14 It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.”
104:26” There the ships go to and fro, and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.”
Job 41:1 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?” [ 2-34 gives even more description’s ]
Isaiah 27:1 “In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword— his fierce, great and powerful sword—Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.”
51:9 “Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago.Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces, Who pierced the dragon?”
Amos 9:3 “Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, there I will hunt them down and seize them. Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.”
Leviathan is described in the Hebrew bible as a sea serpent as well as those of Rahab, Lotan and Tiamat of Egyptian, Canaanite and Babylonian/ Mesopotamia.
It is that within all of these Mythologies that a sea serpent is defeated by a god . Isaiah made mentioned that Leviathan would be slain by the Lord God. Rahab is the emblematic name of Egypt and is also used for the sea by Isaiah. Lotan is a servant of the sea god Yam defeated by the storm god Hadad-Baʿal in the Ugaritic Baal Cycle. In the religion of ancient Babylon, Tiamat is a primordial goddess of the salt sea and it defeated by the god Marduk and identify her with images of a sea serpent or dragon.
There are some mention of “serpent “ or “dragon” in both testaments in Genesis 3:4 and Revelation 12:3, 20:2 that corresponds with the mention of leviathan as the sea serpent.
Roger Beck
LEVIATHAN is described as a sea monster, sea dragon, and sea serpent. It is found in four old testament books given it descriptions.
Psalms 74: 13 “It was you who split open the sea by your power; you broke the heads of the monster in the waters. 14 It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.”
104:26” There the ships go to and fro, and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.”
Job 41:1 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?” [ 2-34 gives even more description’s ]
Isaiah 27:1 “In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword— his fierce, great and powerful sword—Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.”
51:9 “Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago.Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces, Who pierced the dragon?”
Amos 9:3 “Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, there I will hunt them down and seize them. Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.”
Leviathan is described in the Hebrew bible as a sea serpent as well as those of Rahab, Lotan and Tiamat of Egyptian, Canaanite and Babylonian/ Mesopotamia.
It is that within all of these Mythologies that a sea serpent is defeated by a god . Isaiah made mentioned that Leviathan would be slain by the Lord God. Rahab is the emblematic name of Egypt and is also used for the sea by Isaiah. Lotan is a servant of the sea god Yam defeated by the storm god Hadad-Baʿal in the Ugaritic Baal Cycle. In the religion of ancient Babylon, Tiamat is a primordial goddess of the salt sea and it defeated by the god Marduk and identify her with images of a sea serpent or dragon.
There are some mention of “serpent “ or “dragon” in both testaments in Genesis 3:4 and Revelation 12:3, 20:2 that corresponds with the mention of leviathan as the sea serpent.
Roger Beck