Tannin (mythology)

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Tannin ( Hebrew " dragon ") is often translated as " sea ​​monster ", " monster " or " snake ". Tannin is the primeval "dragon" that lives like Leviathan in the sea and is smashed by YHWH . A meaningless same parallels can be found in the Old Testament in Isaiah . Even among the Western Semites , tannin is a dragon-like monster and is fought by the Canaanite goddess Anat .

The Bible says that the angelic revolt is caused by the dragon tannin or the serpent.

Tannin (Ps 74:13); forms together with the lizard-like monster Leviathan ( Job 40.25-41.26), with Rahab (Job 26.12), Behemoth (Job 40.15-24) and various sea monsters (Jona 2.1-11) Fauna of biblical monsters.

In the Bible, dragons and snakes are symbols of evil. The serpent appears in paradise as an adversary of the first humans and achieves that Adam and Eve are driven out of it. In the religion of Israel, God defeated the fearsome Leviathan, a many-headed sea monster. But the other Canaanite names of the chaos dragon were also known in ancient Israel “... wasn't it you who cut Rahab into pieces, who pierced the tannin?” Says Isaiah 51: 9. Martin Luther (1483–1546), however, understood these "tannins" of the fifth day of creation (Genesis 1:21), which are here completely subordinate to God, as big fish. The Catholic Jerusalem Bible spoke of large sea animals. The Jewish religious philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965) translated the term as "great sea monster".

In modern Ivrit it means the crocodile.

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literature

  • GC Heider: Art. Tannin , in: K. van der Toorn; B. Becking; Pieter W. van der Horst (ed.): Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. Leiden, Boston, Cologne, 2 1999, ISBN 9-00-411119-0 , 834-836.
  • Michaela Bauks: Tannin . In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (eds.): The scientific Bibellexikon im Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff., Access date: July 4, 2019.