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Stories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily accessible collection of dragon myths from Greek, Roman, and early Christian sources. Some of the dragons featured are well known: the Hydra, slain by Heracles; the Dragon of Colchis, the guardian of the golden fleece overcome by Jason and Medea; and the great sea-serpent from which Perseus rescues Andromeda. But the less well known dragons are often equally enthralling, like the Dragon of Thespiae, which Menestratus slays by feeding himself to it in armor covered in fish-hooks, or the lamias of Libya, who entice young men into their striking-range by wiggling their tails, shaped like beautiful women, at them. The texts are arranged in such a way as to allow readers to witness the continuity of and evolution in dragon stories between the Classical and Christian worlds, and to understand the genesis of saintly dragon-slaying stories of the sort now characteristically associated with St George, whose earliest dragon-fight concludes the volume. All texts, a considerable number of which have not previously been available in English, are offered in new translations and accompanied by lucid commentaries that place the source-passages into their mythical, folkloric, literary, and cultural contexts. A sampling of the ancient iconography of dragons and an appendix on dragon slaying myths from the ancient Near East and India, particularly those with a bearing upon the Greco-Roman material, are also included. This volume promises to be the most authoritative sourcebook on this perennially fascinating and influential body of ancient myth.

Folklore --- Comparative religion --- Dragons --- Dragons in the Bible. --- Mythology, Classical. --- Religious aspects. --- Dragons in the Bible --- Mythology, Classical --- Religious aspects --- Dragons - Folklore --- Dragons - Religious aspects --- Dragon --- Serpents

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Bible. Revelation --- Michael (Archangel) --- Legends [Christian ] --- Engelen --- Devil --- Dragons in the bible

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Since ancient times Leviathan and other monsters from the biblical world symbolize the life-threatening powers in nature and history. They represent the dark aspects of human nature and political entities and reveal the supernatural dimensions of evil. Ancient texts and pictures regarding these monsters reflect an environment of polytheism and religious pluralism. Remarkably, however, the biblical writings and post-biblical traditions use these venerated symbols in portraying God as being sovereign over the entire universe, a theme that is also prominent in the reception of these texts in subsequent contexts. This volume explores this tension and elucidates the theological and cultural meaning of ‘Leviathan’ by studying its ancient Near Eastern background and its attestation in biblical texts, early and rabbinic Judaism, Christian theology, Early Modern art, and film.

Leviathan. --- Monsters in the Bible. --- 22.08*3 --- 22.08*3 Bijbelse theologie: themata --- Bijbelse theologie: themata --- Dragons in the Bible

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Bible NT. Revelation --- Dragons in the Bible --- Combat in the Bible --- Myth in the Bible --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- 228 --- Apocalyps. Boek der Openbaring van Johannes. Apocalyptiek --- Bible. --- Ap Joh 12 (Book of the New Testament) --- Apokalypse Johannes 12 (Book of the New Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Demythologization

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A re-assessment of the theory that the Hebrew Bible contains references to Yahweh's battle with a dragon or the sea, with special reference to the Psalter.

Bible -- Eau --- Bible -- Water --- Bijbel -- Water --- Dragons dans la bible --- Dragons in the bible --- Draken in de bijbel --- Eau dans la Bible --- Theomachie in de bijbel --- Theomachy in the Bible --- Théomachie dans la bible --- Water in de Bijbel --- Water in the Bible --- Dragons in the Bible --- 223.3 --- 221.08*3 --- Psalmen --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- 221.08*3 Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Bible. --- Biblos Psalmon (Book of the Old Testament) --- Buch der Preisungen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Liber Psalmorum (Book of the Old Testament) --- Mazāmīr (Book of the Old Testament) --- Preisungen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psalmen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psalmoi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psalms (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psalms of David (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psaumes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Pseaumes de Dauid (Book of the Old Testament) --- Salmenes bok (Book of the Old Testament) --- Salmos (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shihen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sifr al-Mazāmīr (Book of the Old Testament) --- Soltar (Book of the Old Testament) --- Tehilim (Book of the Old Testament) --- Tehillim (Book of the Old Testament) --- תהלים (Book of the Old Testament) --- Zsoltárkönyv (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible. Psalms --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Theomachy in the Bible. --- Dragons in the Bible. --- Water in the Bible. --- Bible O.T. --- Dragons. --- Theomachy. --- Water.