Hybrid Creatures

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2500 BCE

1000+ CE

Ancient Near East

Epic of Gilgamesh IX Ninurta's Exploits Enuma Elish I Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince

Hebrew Bible

Genesis 3:24 Isaiah 13:21 Isaiah 27:1 Isaiah 34:14 Ezekiel 1:10 Psalms 74:14 Job 41:25 Daniel 7:3 Daniel 7:4 Daniel 7:5 Daniel 7:7

Septuagint

LXX Isaiah 13:21 LXX Isaiah 34:14

Pseudepigrapha

4 Ezra 11

Classical

Hesiod Theogony 820

New Testament

Revelation 4:7 Revelation 13:1 Revelation 13:2

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Ancient Near Eastern and Greek art and literature filled the divine and demonic world with composite beings that combined human and animal parts or fused several animals into a single body. Winged bulls and lions with human heads guarded palace gates, scorpion-men kept watch over the mountain passes, and gods spawned broods of horned serpents, fish-men, and bull-men to fight their battles. The Hebrew Bible and Septuagint inherit this imagery, and later Jewish and Christian traditions continued to imagine the heavenly and monstrous realms through the same hybrid forms.

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