RE: James Kennedy and his YEC teachings

Behemoth is the plural of behemah (beast), which is obviously not the
meaning in the Job passage. Genesius and Webster both suggest that the
word used in Job is derived from the Egyptian p-ehe-mau, which literally
means water ox.

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Mike Tharp wrote:

> Even some of my liberal commentaries point out that hippopotamus is most
> likely not an appropriate translation for behemoth, which is described as
> having a "tail like a cedar." One commentary suggests an elephant, with the
> "tail like a cedar" describing its trunk.
>
> Descriptions in Job of both behemoth and leviathan sound unlike any creature
> we can currently identify. Could they be creatures now extinct? I think
> that's a possibility. Or perhaps these were descriptions of mythical beasts
> that never existed but were merely conjured by man's imagination? I would
> say unlikely but, again, a possibility.
>
Received on Fri Mar 4 10:10:48 2005