Leviathan and the Bible's 3rd Creation Story (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

Leviathan, Rahab, and Behemoth: the Bible is home to some genuinely enormous monsters, and this episode we dig into where they came from and what they're actually doing there.

From a seven-headed sea dragon that Isaiah plucked out of the ancient air to a "third creation account" where God brings order by subduing chaos, these creatures turn out to be less cryptozoology and more mythology — the kind of fantastical beast-making humans have done for millennia. And is Behemoth a hippo, a dinosaur, or something the author of Job just dreamed up?

Chapters: 

• 0:00 — Welcome and Chaos Monsters
• 1:21 — Leviathan, Rahab, and Behemoth
• 2:23 — Leviathan in Isaiah 27
• 4:05 — The Ugaritic Baal Cycle
• 5:56 — Seven-Headed Sea Serpents
• 7:26 — The Many Heads of Psalm 74
• 9:04 — Revelation's Dragon and Satan
• 10:43 — Leviathan and Creation
• 12:47 — Rahab as Egypt
• 14:42 — The Literalism Problem
• 15:55 — Two Different Rahabs
• 17:29 — Behemoth: Hippo or Monster?
• 21:02 — What "Tail" Really Means
• 23:38 — Inventing Mythical Beasts
• 25:01 — More Ugaritic Monsters
• 26:25 — Outro

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/dxEAxe-_6dc?si=kOKCWz53oLH3DMsY