Biblical scholars like me have followed in their footsteps. The Bible is full of monsters, even if they’re not Frankenstein or Bigfoot, and these characters can teach important lessons about ...

Then I discovered that the presence of monsters is not exclusive to the Apocalypse. The attentive reader of the Bible has already noticed the number of beings in the Old and New Testaments that do ...

Madadh Richey is an assistant professor of Hebrew Bible at Brandeis. This article originally appeared on The Conversation. What is a “monster”? For most Americans, this word sparks images of haunted ...

With mentions of Behemoth in Job and Leviathan in Psalms, some verses hint at creatures that resemble dinosaurs. This post delves into the Bible by analysing how ancient texts align with fossil ...

Assistant professor of Hebrew Bible Madadh Richey looks for monsters. She finds them everywhere — in the Book of Numbers, where God sends snakes to punish the Israelites; to the mysterious nephilim, ...

The sea orm was partly based on lore, including Biblical references to a serpent-like sea creature. It was also based on descriptions that Magnus collected from sailors who described a massive ...