So the excellent Paleontology YouTuber TREY the Explainer, made a video on Leviathan in the Tanakh:
Interesting speculation that Leviathan may have surrounded the earth disc. One minor error is the statement that humans always seem to hate snakes. Which as @gbrooks9 knows, is mostly not true at all.
Seems pretty good for a paleontologist if the @Reggie_O_Donoghue only found one error 20+ minutes end right at the end of the video. Itâs a little bit beyond what I necessarily would be able to critique but it sounds like he consulted recently scholarly work as much as he could. What do you think about it outside of the one comment at the end?
Wow. I hate snakes
but I thought there is evidence in anthropology that if you present a picture of snakes to children of the ape family (humans and great apes) and show fear or emit a high yelp, they learn fear of snakes easilyâwhereas it doesnât work with flowers.
Serpent worship is very common around the world, the serpent was seen of as a symbol of immortality. This idea even shows up in Isaiah 6, where Seraph may as well be translated as âserpentâ, given how âsaraphâ is a common noun for snake. This interpretation is consistent with Egyptian Uraeus depictions.