Original Jewish

Yair Zakovitch in “Lo Kakh Katuv baTanakh” writes about the Taninim created on the fifth day. These are my notes from a Dvar Torah I gave on the subject.  There are also Sumerian parallels (book) and Ugaritic.

The basic idea is that the line in Genesis 1:21 about the Taninim/Dragons referred to a well known mythology [...]