Where We Read About a Dragon Slayer in the Psalms

The chaos dragon isn’t God’s enemy—it’s an enemy of creation. The Psalms depict the entire process of creation as a cosmic battle in which Yahweh defends creation from chaos and disorder, represented by the dragon. In this episode, Tim and Jon discuss two psalms that look back to the cosmic battle at the beginning of creation and also look ahead to a day when Yahweh will give his own dragon-slaying power to a human image of God.

Show Music:
“Defender (Instrumental)” by TENTS
All music from Leche Demos by Matthew Halbert-Howen

Show produced by Cooper Peltz with Associate Producer Lindsey Ponder, Lead Editor Dan Gummel, and Editors Tyler Bailey and Frank Garza. Mixed by Tyler Bailey. Podcast annotations for the BibleProject app by Hannah Woo.