Leviathan is the Bible’s great sea monster, a creature no human can catch and only God can master. The Hebrew text names it six times, in Job, the Psalms and Isaiah. Job 41 describes a living beast and Psalm 104 a creature at play; Psalm 74 and Isaiah make it a picture of evil that God overthrows. Its most famous appearance is a question. Out of the whirlwind God asks Job, “Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or…

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