re: #233 LudwigVanQuixote

Gan Eden?

I am impressed with you for knowing the words.

Incidentally, behemoth is not necessarily a hippo. There is a very very large debate in the commentaries as to what it was/is.

It is some sort of huge land critter.

Leviathan is some sort of huge sea critter. It may be a whale or a squid or an octopus.

Interestingly enough, there are schools of thought that consider one to be a land dragon and the other a sea dragon as well.

I studied Hebrew for a while. Even bought the e-Tanakh for my iPhone Bible reader. Then I realized how far away I was from actually being able to benefit, and asked for a refund from Olive Tree Bible Software Inc., which they promptly and cheerfully gave.

I studied Yiddish as part of my degree work in Germanic Languages and Literature, and can still manage simple Bashevis Singer stories with relative ease.