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To: Christian Engineer Mass

I have always been curious about the book of Job. For example, some commentators say “Leviathan” is the whale, others the crocodile; and “Behomoth,” is it the crocodile or the hippopotamus? Or are both some species of dinosaur?

Also I always thought Job predated the ancient Greeks, but they nameed the constellations...

Not trying to argue, just curious.


21 posted on 11/17/2011 7:45:11 PM PST by ixtl ( You live and learn. Or you don't live long.)
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To: ixtl

The constellations are a fascinating example. Every civilization has the same concepts for the constellations, which is one of many clues that there was once a single civilization like the Bible describes at Babel.

Another example is the link from the days of the weeks to the planets: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. Even the Japanese have this same idiom.

We don’t know exactly what Leviathan is. I suspect it is a creature that no longer exists. Though I do think where the Bible talks about dragons we would call them dinosaurs. Many reptiles never stop growing. I think that is a big piece in the dinosaur puzzle.

http://studybible.me/bible.php?q=Job+41


22 posted on 11/17/2011 9:10:37 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: ixtl

Oh I see what you were trying to say now.

The concepts associated with the constellations have been around for a VERY long time. The Hebrews called it the Mazzaroth.

By the way, the constellations NEVER looked like what they are called. That is a myth. There is something else going on with that. A surprising case can be made that God’s plan of salvation is spelled out in the Mazzaroth. I remember it goes something like the savior comes from the virgin.

A very quick search yields:

“In almost all known cultures, the Pleiades are seven sisters, or, for some, seven brothers.”

“The Latin names for the Big and Little Dippers, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, are echoed in Asian and Native American names for the same constellations: Big and Little Bear.”


25 posted on 11/18/2011 9:18:25 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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