Eschatological Consumption of Leviathan and Behemoth as Revelation of the Messianic Torah

Authors

• Andrei Orlov, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2023

Publisher

Gorgias Press

Source Publication

Watering the Garden: Studies in Honor of Deirdre Dempsey

Source ISSN

9781463244934

Abstract

The notion that the righteous would one day feast on Behemoth and Leviathan occupied a prominent place in early Jewish pseudepigraphical accounts, including testimonies found in the Book of the Similitudes, 4 Ezra, and 2 Baruch. Thus, from 1 Enoch 60:24 one learns that “two monsters, prepared according to the greatness of the Lord, will provide food for the chosen and righteous.”

Comments

Accepted version. "Eschatological Consumption of Leviathan and Behemoth as Revelation of the Messianic Torah," in Watering the Garden: Studies in Honor of Deirdre Dempsey. Ed. Andrei A. Orlov. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2023: 218-287. Publisher link. © 2023 Gorgias Press. Used with permission

Recommended Citation

Orlov, Andrei, "Eschatological Consumption of Leviathan and Behemoth as Revelation of the Messianic Torah" (2023). Theology Faculty Research and Publications. 918.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theo_fac/918