11/3/2023 0 Comments Half life sea monster![]() No one agrees on whether this book of ‘visions’ contains descriptions of future events, or symbolic representations of the past, but everyone agrees that it sure has a lot of monsters. If there’s one place that’s good for finding Biblical monsters, it’s the book of Revelation. Less imaginative scholars have suggested that the Behemoth is simply a poetic description of a real giant creature, like a hippopotamus. In Jewish tradition, the Behemoth is a primal earth-monster, a symbol of chaos. However, carbon dating aside, the creature is mentioned as having a navel, which would rule it out as an egg-hatched lizard. His tail is so large that it ‘moves like a cedar.’ This description has led some Creationists to claim that Behemoth was in fact a Biblical-era dinosaur. ![]() ![]() In Job, one of the Bible’s oldest books, the Behemoth is described as a gigantic, powerful creature that can only be tamed by God.
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