Behemoth

Behemoth (Hebraice בהמות ; recentius behemot [sing. bəhēmāh 'animal domesticum']; Arabice بھيمة bahimah, plur. بهائم bahaëm) est bestiae monstrum in Libro Iob (40:10–24) commemorata.

Behemoth et Leviathan. Hydrochroma Gulielmi Blake, in William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job.

Behemoth in Dictionnaire Infernal depictum.

Leviathan, Behemoth, et Ziz.

Identitates opinabiles variant a creatura mythologica ad elephantem, hippopotamum, rhinocerotem, et buffalonem.^[1] Nonnulli creationistae false credunt behemoth esse sauropodum, quia eius cauda ut arbor cedrus describitur. Per rationem metaphoricam, nomen ullam entitatem maximam vel potentissimam attingere potest.

Nexus interni

• Akdamut
• Bahamut
• Baphomet
• Draco
• Liber Iob in manuscriptis illuminatis Byzantinis
• Leviathan
• Ningishzida
• Tarasque

Notae

1. Metzger et Coogan 2004:33.

Bibliographia

• Batto, B. F. 1999. Behemoth. In Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, ed. K. van der Toorn, B. Becking, et Pieter W. van der Horst, 165–169. Lugduni Batavorum, Bostoniae, et Coloniae. ISBN 90-04-11119-0.
• Borrmann, Norbert. 2000. Lexikon der Monster, Geister und Dämonen. Berolini. ISBN 3-89602-233-4.
• Hartmann, Fred. 2005. Das Geheimnis des Leviathan. Schwengeler. ISBN 978-3-85666-374-2.
• Metzger, Bruce Manning, et Michael D. Coogan, eds. 1993. The Oxford Companion to the Bible. Oxoniae: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504645-5.
• Metzger, Bruce Manning, et Michael D. Coogan, eds. 2004. The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517610-0. Google Books.
• Mitchell, Stephen. 1987. The Book of Job. Franciscopoli: North Point Press.
• Pennock, R. T. 1999. Tower of Babel. Cantabrigiae Massachusettae: MIT Press.

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Behemoth spectant.

• Leviathan et Behemoth, jewishencyclopedia.com (commentarius in Jewish Encyclopedia)