In the Middle Ages, most people believed that all dragons were evil, deadly and an omen of terrible things to come. To Christians, they were a symbol of sin or Satan. These beliefs likely came from the Bible's book of Job, which describes a terrifying beast called the Leviathan. Accordin...
I have used the word atheist to mean lack of belief in the God of Abraham, the God of the Bible (and I presume the Koran.) I do this because if you live in a “Western” country that is usually the God someone is referring to when they ask “Do you believe in God.” (I don...
What does the Mead Hall represent in Beowulf? What did Beowulf do with Grendel's arm? What are the three monsters Beowulf fights? What is an 'eerie death-shadow' referring to in Beowulf? What have dragons traditionally represented in literature?
In any case, it is possible that the author of our text intends a wordplay, substituting the verbyanʾēṣ“it becomes revolting” (causes one to shudder?) for the expected formyānēṣ“it blooms.” The two verbs are homonyms: the almond blooms (yānēṣ), but it will become rev...
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in the office. They go to a restaurant. They go to a bar. Peggy spends much of the night dodging a dinner she’s supposed to be at, and the episode cuts back and forth between the office and the restaurant. There are lots of sets, lots of little minor character roles, and the ...
The Bible has something to say about divination, mediums, witchcraft, séances, sorcery, and other forms of dark magic. We’ll take a look at these. For now, though, it must be said: if you think witches are for the good, and that “Glinda the Good Witch” or the “Wizard” in ...
37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. 38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps. 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoi...
The Hebrew word Edom means "red", and the Hebrew Bible relates it to the name of its founder, Esau, the elder son of the Hebrew patriarch Isaac, because he
speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’Berean Standard BibleSpeak to him and tell him that this is what the ...