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Dragons in the Bible – Chaos Dragon E1

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The Targums of Genesis

In the ancient world, dragons were primarily associated with the sea. In Greek myth and lore, you've got titans and all the famous dragon slang stories. A Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible was produced by Jewish scholars because Greeks has become the lingua franca. Ancient Jewish readers saw actual monsters on day 5 of Genesis. And Greek readers saw Drakon, dragons. But they're not bad.

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