The cultural setting is going to matter—that’s another way of saying the worldview. For instance, in Psalms you’re going to run across the word “Leviathan.” Now, I hate to disappoint people, but Leviathan—this sea monster, this sea beast, this creature—is not a dinosaur. “Leviathan” was a well-known term in the wider ancient Near Eastern world, of which the biblical writers were a part and of which the Bible is a part. Leviathan was a symbolic creature to signify chaos, disruption, forces hostile