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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? _______________________________________________ Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store: https://data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com/ _______________________________________________ Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma _______________________________________________ Listen to the podcast on every app: https://pod.link/1681418502 _______________________________________________ Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod Threads — https://www.threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod _______________________________________________ Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So: https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/ _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ #DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #Leviathan #Behemoth #Mythology