Tannin (demon)

Tannin (Hebrew " Dragon" ) is often called " sea monster ", " monster " or " serpent " translated. Tannin is the primeval "Dragon " which, like Leviathan lives in the sea and is shattered by YHWH. A significant same parallel can be found in the Old Testament in Isaiah. Also in the Western Semites tannin is a dragon-like monster and is opposed by the Canaanite goddess Anat.

In the Bible it says, the revolt of the angels was caused by the dragon tannin or of the snake.

Tannin ( Ps 74.13 ); together with the lizard-like monster Leviathan (Job 40.25 to 41.26 ), with Rahab (Job 26:12 ), Behemoth (Job 40.15-24 ) and various sea Ungetieren (Jonah 2:1-11 ), the Fauna biblical monster.

Dragons and snakes are in the Bible as a symbol of evil. The snake occurs in paradise as adversaries of the first people reached and that Adam and Eve are expelled from it. In religion, the God of Israel defeated the fearsome Leviathan, a many-headed monster of the sea. But the other Canaanite name of the chaos dragon was known in ancient Israel " ... You were not the one who cut Rahab to pieces who pierced the tannin? " It says in Isaiah 51.9. However, Martin Luther (1483-1546) understood this " Tannimin " with which God adorns his fifth day of creation work ( Genesis 1:21), as a large fish. The Catholic Jerusalem Bible spoke of the great sea monsters. The Jewish religious philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965) translated the term with " great sea monster ".