Chapter 98 begins, “Already has it been related how the great Leviathan (see entry 117) is afar off descried from the mast-head; how he is chased over the watery moors, and slaughtered in the valleys of the deep; how he is then towed alongside and beheaded; and how (on the principle which entitled the headsman […]
Lazarus
In chapter 49, after being rescued from the sea after an encounter with a whale, Ishmael writes his will and says, “I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection…” […]
Ahab
The historical account of the details of the evil Ahab, king of Israel, and his equally evil wife, Jezebel is not a brief one in Scripture, spanning 209 verses from 1 KINGS 16 : 29-22 : 40. The record includes some of the most fascinating passages and miracles in the Old Testament, such as God commanding ravens to feed Elijah…
Leviathan
Entry 116 quotes Ishmael’s description of the interior of a whale, in which he mentions “leviathan.” Though portrayed in Ishmael’s description as a whale, the Biblical Leviathan is a large sea creature described by God Himself in JOB 41 : 1-34 as overwhelming…
Jonah
Chapter nine of the novel contains Father Mapple’s enthusiastic sermon taken from most of the book of JONAH while Chapter 102 finds Ishmael attempting to describe a few of the “interior structural features” of a whale, when a word of caution emerges: “…have a care how you seize the privilege of Jonah alone; the privilege […]