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Originally posted by Giltwist
Isn't it part of Jewish tradition to not intermarry? Wasn't that Soloman's downfall?
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According to the Bible there were not more than one race technically until after the flood and the Tower of Babel. At the tower of Babel was when the different languages began. There was no Jewish Law until Exodus and Leviticus which were events AFTER the flood.
Job the book in which the Leviathon and Behemoth are mentioned is sometimes considered one of the oldest books of the Bible and occuring prior to the Jewish captivity in Egypt which would mean prior to the Jewish Laws.
Tradition would not have been formed at this point then.
This excerpt from the book of Job does not sound like a crocodile to me. This one sounds a bit big. "Behold now the Behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron... Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not; he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He taketh it with his eyes; his nose pierceth through snares."
-Job 40:15-18, 23-24 (KJV)
It seems to me that this discussion has somewhat degraded into a question of the validity of the Bible even though it was a simple question as to a certain subject being contained or not contained therein.
The Bible does mention creatures that can be interpreted as being dinosaurs or dragons. Since no one was there to see them we do not know exactly what they were talking about or if it was even just metaphor. The fact of it is that most of the Bible, except for Genesis, was written post flood (as recorded in the Bible) and it's possible that there were no dinosaurs, or not many remaining, by that time. Why would anyone record much about a creature that may have been extinct and would have to be known of mostly by verbal history?