In medieval Jewish folklore, Rahab is a mythical sea monster, a dragon of the waters, the "demonic angel of the sea". Rahab represents the primordial abyss, the water dragon of darkness and chaos, comparable to Leviathan and Tiamat .

2022年11月29日 · In Scripture, Rahab the sea monster symbolizes rebellion and power and pride. But the forces of evil can’t hold a candle to the supreme power of the God of the universe. Rahab is “cut to pieces” by Him, and all that humans take pride in will come to naught.

2020年6月2日 · Is the “mythical sea monster” Rahab something like the giant watery snake Leviathan? Could Yahweh’s defeat of Egypt at the exodus be poetically re-presented in Psalm 74, Psalm 89, and Isaiah 51 as a crushing of the serpent’s head?

The most famous Rahab in the Bible is the prostitute of Jericho who hid the two Hebrew spies in Joshua 2. But there seems to be a different Rahab introduced in Job: “God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab. —Job 9:13 . By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.

Rahab is a colossal sea monster of Biblical origin, often depicted as a symbol of chaos and the untamed sea. In Hebrew scripture, Rahab represents a monstrous being subdued by God during the creation of the world, embodying the divine victory over chaos.

In biblical literature, Rahab is often depicted as a sea monster or a symbol of chaos and pride. This imagery is rooted in ancient Near Eastern mythology, where sea monsters represented the chaotic forces that opposed the divine order. In the Bible, Rahab is used metaphorically to describe the enemies of God and the forces of chaos that He subdues.

According to a sentence preserved in the Talmud, "Rahab" is the name of the demon, the ruler of the sea ("Sar shel Yam"; B. B. 74b). It is used as a designation for Egypt in Ps. lxxxvii. 4 and Isa. xxx. 7.

“Rahab” (רהב) is a Hebrew named sea monster of an ancient myth, and it is said that Rahab was surrendered by gods. The origin of this name comes from a Hebrew word “Rah’-hab” (רהב), with a meaning of “blusterer, storm and arrogance.”

Rahab lets the spies escape in this 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. The Hebrew אשה זונה (ishah zonah), used to describe Rahab in Joshua 2:1, literally means "a prostitute woman". [8]While the Talmud holds to that interpretation, some sources in Rabbinic literature insists that she was an "innkeeper," based on Targum Jonathan and other texts (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic ...

So, too, in Psalm 89 God's power to subdue the sea is spoken of immediately before a mention of his having "broken Rahab in pieces" (ver. 9, 10). Rahab, as a name of Egypt, occurs once only without reference to the Exodus: this is in Psalm 87, where Rahab, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush are compared with Zion (ver. 4, 5).