The Bible refers to Leviathan and Rahab, from the Hebrew Tanakh, although ' great creatures of the sea ' ( NIV ) are also mentioned in Book of Genesis 1: 21.

" Isaiah 27: 1 uses the first of these phrases to describe Leviathan ( although in this case the name " Leviathan " apparently refers to an unnamed historical / political enemy of Israel rather than the original serpent-monster ).

According to legend this refers to the Leviathan and its mate.

; the Biblical Leviathan presumably reflects a corresponding opponent of an early version of Yahweh ).

The Young Earth creationist opinion is that Leviathan and Behemoth are names given to dinosaurs which existed in Biblical times.

* Putting God on Trial-The Biblical Book of Job contains a major section on the literary use of Leviathan.

Leviathan is a Biblical sea monster.

The major protagonists, now gathered together on board the submarine, are menaced by the Leviathan, a giant, pyramid-shaped single-cell sea monster that has been growing in size for hundreds of millions of years.

Sea serpents were giant cryptozoological creatures once believed to live in water, whether sea monsters such as the Leviathan or lake monsters such as the Loch Ness Monster.

Leviathan (; ) is a sea monster referred to in the Bible.

The Tarasque was the offspring of the Onachus and the Leviathan of biblical account ; disputably a giant sea serpent.

In the Bible, Tannin is the Hebrew term for Leviathan or sea dragon ( Isaiah 27: 1 ).

Examples of the storm god vs. sea serpent trope in the Ancient Near East can be seen with Baʿal vs. Yam ( Canaanite ), Marduk vs. Tiamat ( Babylonian ), and Yahweh vs. Leviathan ( Jewish ) among others.

* the Leviathan, an ancient mechanical sea monster built by the Atlanteans in Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Translated, this is Leviathan ( LVIThN ), a sea creature that originated from Judaic mythology.

When honorary Avengers member Marrina transforms into the gigantic sea monster Leviathan, Captain Marvel leads the hunt for the creature.

Some scholars have identified the biblical creature Leviathan as a monster from Canaanite mythology.

" And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters.

The enormous size of the Leviathan is described by R. Johanan, from whom proceeded nearly all the aggadot concerning this monster: " Once we went in a ship and saw a fish which put his head out of the water.

Although he was a strict atheist, he maintained that the world was created by a monster called Leviathan, whose predatory nature was passed on to humans.

In addition, Grammy-winning metal band Mastodon has released three concept albums, Leviathan, Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye, which, along with their debut album, Remission, make up a quadrilogy, each representing its own element: water, earth, air and fire, respectively.

In his treatise Leviathan, ( 1651 ), Hobbes expresses a view of natural law as a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or takes away the means of preserving the same ; and to omit that by which he thinks it may best be preserved.

As used by Thomas Hobbes in his treatises Leviathan and De Cive, natural law is " a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or takes away the means of preserving the same ; and to omit that by which he thinks it may best be preserved.

Ashbless is, however, best known in his incarnation as a 19th century poet, in which guise he appears in Powers ' The Anubis Gates ( 1983 ) and as a lesser character in Blaylock's The Digging Leviathan ( 1984 ).

Hayek dismisses philosophies that do not adequately recognize the emergent nature of society, and which describe it as the conscious creation of a rational agent ( be it God, the Sovereign, or any kind of personified body politic, such as Hobbes's Leviathan ).

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes describes an aristocracy as a commonwealth in which the representative of the citizens is an assembly by part.

Shaftesbury was reacting to Thomas Hobbes's justification of royal absolutism in his Leviathan, Chapter XIII, in which he famously holds that the state of nature is a " war of all against all " in which men's lives are " solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ".

The plains are dotted with pits, such as Leviathan Patera, which are probably the vents from which this lava emerged.

Gauthier is the author of numerous articles, some of the most important of which are collected in Moral Dealing, and several books including Practical Reasoning, The Logic of Leviathan, Morals by Agreement, and Rousseau: The Social and the Solitary.

He defined will in his Leviathan Chapter VI, in words which explicitly criticize the medieval scholastic definitions:

Mythologist Joseph Campbell also makes parallels to the slaying of Leviathan by YHWH, about which YHWH boasts to Job.

There have been three major Tyranid hive fleets to date ; Hive Fleet Behemoth and Hive Fleet Kraken of whom both were defeated, and Hive Fleet Leviathan which is one of the current threats to the known galaxy.

In a legend recorded in the Midrash called Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer it is stated that the fish which swallowed Jonah narrowly avoided being eaten by the Leviathan, which eats one whale each day.

In the eleventh century piyyut ( religious poem ), Akdamut, recited on Shavuot ( Pentecost ), it is envisioned that, ultimately, God will slaughter the Leviathan, which is described as having " mighty fins " ( and, therefore, a kosher fish, not an inedible snake or crocodile ), and it will be served as a sumptuous banquet for all the righteous in Heaven.

In James P. Blaylock's The Digging Leviathan ( 1984 ), a pair of rival scientific teams compete to reach Pellucidar ; the story concludes before the goal is attained.

In medieval times, sovereignty was seen as absoluteness of the state ; this is according to Thomas Hobbes in his text ," Leviathan ".

The Leviathan gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean is a further source of friction.

The Leviathan is mentioned six times in the Hebrew Bible, with being dedicated to describing him in detail:

In Psalm 74 God is said to " break the heads of Leviathan in pieces " before giving his flesh to the people of the wilderness ; in Psalm 104 God is praised for having made all things, including Leviathan ; and in he is called the " wriggling serpent " who will be killed at the end of time.

In Psalm 104, Leviathan is not described as harmful in any way, but simply as a creature of the ocean, part of God's creation.

It is possible that the authors of the Job 41: 2-26, on the other hand, based the Leviathan on descriptions of Egyptian animal mythology where the crocodile is the enemy of the solar deity Horus ( and is subdued either by Horus, or by the Pharaoh ).