119 Baba Batra 74b. The Midrashim (PK 6, 58; PR 16, 81a; WR 22.9; BaR 21.18; Tan. Pinehas 6) describe, in still more glowing colors, the enormous quantities of water needed by Behemoth, and quote a view according to which a river comes out from paradise in order to quench the thirst of this monster. Comp. note 142.
120 PK 29, 188a; Baba Batra 74b; Midrash Jonah 98; PRE 9. Comp. vol. I, p. 40; vol. IV, p. 249.
121 Baba Batra 74b–75a. Comp. also the Midrashim cited in note 119.
122 Shabbat 77b; PRK (Grünhut’s edition) 74; Iggeret Ba'ale Hayyim 3, 12. According to I. Löw, Orientalische Studien, 565, כלכית which causes terror to the Leviathan, is the Greek χαλκίς “lizzard”.
123 PK 29, 188a. Comp. also vol. I, p. 2S, with regard to the illuminating canopy over the heads of the pious made of the hide of Leviathan. The clothes of the first “human couple” which were “garments of light”, were made of the hide of the female Leviathan (comp. Index, s.v. “Adam, Garments of”). Comp. the unknown Midrash in Hadar and Da’at (מנחת יהודה) on Gen. 3.21. In the Babylonian myths of creation the heavens are formed of the upper parts of the body of Tiamat.
124 ‘Abodah Zarah 3b; PRE 9; Midrash Jonah 98; Hasidim 476. Comp. further Septuagint and Targum on Ps. 104.26, both of which understand this passage to say (very likely on the basis of Job 40.27, as already remarked by Rashi on Ps., loc. cit., which escaped the notice of Grünbaum, Gesammelte Aufsätze 128) that God sports with Leviathan. In ‘Abodah Zarah, loc. cit., the following account is given of God’s occupation during the twelve hours of the day. He studies the Torah during the first three hours; He judges the world for three hours; during the next three hours He provides for the needs of all living creatures; the last three hours He spends sporting with Leviathan. This Haggadah is allegorically explained in ER 2, 61–62, where Leviathan is taken symbolically to represent the power of the heathen (comp. Tehillim 104, 445). It is accordingly stated there that nothing pleases God so much as the failure of the designs of the heathen against Him (comp. Ps. 2.1–4). On the plan of God’s daily occupation comp. further ER 17, 84; 18, 90; 26, 130; 31, 162. On Leviathan=evil, comp. note 127, end.
125 Baba Batra 75a, which literally reads: If Leviathan were not to put his head into paradise and become perfumed by its frag-
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