Sveriges mest populära poddar

The Naked Bible Podcast

Naked Bible 347: Jonah and the Chaos Dragon

67 min • 25 oktober 2020

The story of Jonah being swallowed by a “great fish” (misunderstood as a whale) is familiar to Bible readers and those in the wider culture who have never read the Bible. Given the flexibility of the Hebrew phrase behind “great fish” (dag gadol), scholars have wondered whether Jonah connects back to biblical Leviathan, the well-know chaos serpent of Canaanite literature. In this episode we explore the potential connections.

00:00 -00:00