Leviathan

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Job 41 introduces Leviathan.

In today’s Hebrew לויתן means simply Whale just like in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick:

John Wood argued this sea monster be a crocodile:

Thomas Hobbes used the name to describe the rule by an absolute sovereign:
Leviathan


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