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By Joel R. Soza

The bible is certainly an international of the unusual and mysterious by way of the diversity of creatures which are offered in its texts. those now and again function pictures of fine as opposed to evil, or order as opposed to chaos. Flat and narrowly myopic literal readings of the bible that every now and then lacks for mind's eye and inventive perception to the bible’s occasional and amazingly metaphorical maze fall a ways wanting what's had to delight in the whole intensity of the biblical world’s imagery. for that reason this paintings explores the that means of the bible’s mysterious creatures with an emphasis on 3 creatures that each one look within the ebook of the prophet Isaiah: Lucifer (Isa 14:12), Leviathan (Isa 27:1), and Lilith (Isa 34:14). those mysterious creatures of the bible survive and will either encourage and reason worry. it's a magnificent combined global of biblical metaphor and realism to be present in the likes of Lucifer, Leviathan, Lilith and the remainder of the mysterious creatures that make a biblical appearance.

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