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SEA MONSTER

A large sea creature, real or mythological (also “dragon”/“serpent”). Significant are passages where Heb. tannîn is parallel or paired with terms like “Leviathan” (lwytn; cf. the Canaanite god Lotan; Ps. 74:13; Isa. 27:1) and/or where the context is “the sea/deep.” Such texts are comparative correctives to Canaanite beliefs about the terrifying, divine power and danger of the Sea (cf. Gen. 1:21; Ps. 148:7) and creation concepts about creatures of chaos within OT polemics for the uniqueness of Yahweh, who created, controls, and has and will conquer them (Job 7:12; Isa. 51:9; Ezek. 29:3; 32:2).

Bibliography. W. F. Albright, Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan (1968, repr. Winona Lake, 1978); J. Day, God’s Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea. University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 35 (Cambridge, 1985).

W. Creighton Marlowe






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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