Leviathan (Free eBook) by Thomas Hobbes ( Author )
Click "View Sample" to read the whole book. No need to purchase. The Leviathan of the Book of Job is a reflection of the older Canaanite Lotan, a primeval monster defeated by the god Baal Hadad.[1][2] Parallels to the role of Mesopotamian Tiamat defeated by Marduk have long been drawn in comparative mythology, as have been wider comparisons to dragon and world serpent narratives such as Indra slaying Vrtra or Thor slaying Jörmungandr.[3] Leviathan also figures in the Hebrew Bible as a metaphor for a powerful enemy, notably Babylon (Isaiah 27:1). Some 19th-century scholars pragmatically interpreted it as referring to large aquatic creatures, such as the crocodile.[4] The word later came to be used as a term for great whale and for sea monsters in general.
AA Idea Publication
2002-05-28
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Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature & Fiction
epub
File Size 729.22 KB
English
RM 999.99
RM 999.99
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