in the Hebrew Bible in Pss 74:13–14; 89:9–10 (10–11); Isa 51:9–10 evince more of a conflict than this quite enfeebled version of the myth, where there is no real struggle and so no real victory. The “doors” (דלתים) are literally “double doors,” the idea being of two leaves of a door fastened by a bar (v 10). Doors will not serve to hold in water, so the doors here are not an item in the cosmology but a metaphor for whatever it is that restrains the sea. What is the origin of the sea? From whose womb