Like many of you, I grew up in an age of black and white monster films, like “Frankenstein” and “Dracula,” which were played endlessly on late night TV. In the Bible there are also a number of ...

The word dinosaur might not appear in the Bible explicitly. That said, there are numerous mentions of curious creatures like ...

What do scriptural accounts of monstrous beings like Leviathan and Behemoth tell us about our experience of the sacred? When I started reading the Bible as a teenager, I was shocked to read the ...

The word comes from the ancient Hebrew word liwyāthān, which means "a great sea serpent" or "sea monster". This Hebrew root ...

From the reputation Satan has gained over the last two millennia, you might think he was God’s original nemesis. But long before there was a Christian devil, God had a first worst enemy: the great ...

Some words have travelled a remarkable distance from their original setting, taking on broader meanings as language has ...