The Behamoth in Chapter Forty of Job

The figure of the leviathan first appeared in job's cursed lament of chapter three. Is it a legendary or crypto zoological creature believed by job and his contemporaries to be real? Is it a poetic description of a species of dinosaur? Perhaps it's a representation of an extinct species through the lens of legends of great monsters and dragons developed surrounding discoveries of dinosaur fossils. The depiction of behemoth drew upon elements of actual and legendary creatures and pagan mythology. As all these things partially manifest the greater reality of death in creation.