Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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?
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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
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#DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #Leviathan #Behemoth #Mythology
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?
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Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store:
data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com
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Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron:
patreon.com/DataOverDogma
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Listen to the podcast on every app:
pod.link/1681418502
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Follow us:
Instagram — instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod
TikTok — tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod
Threads — threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod
X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma
Facebook — facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod
_______________________________________________
Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So:
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
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#DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #Leviathan #Behemoth #Mythology
