Brit-Am Commentary (BAC).
Contents:
Job 3:1-8 The Laments of Job Begin.
Leviathan as Sea Monster, Gas Field, and British Political Theory.
Job 3:9-26 Job Longs for Death. Dark Before Dawn.
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The Book of Job. Chapter Three.
Job 3:1-8 .
Job 3: 1-8
The Laments of Job Begin.
Leviathan as Sea Monster, Gas Field, and British Political Theory.
[Job 3:1] After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
[Job 3:2] And Job spoke, and said:
[Job 3:3] 'May the day perish on which I was born,
And the night in which it was said,
'A male child is conceived.'
# I was born #. Hebrew "ivoled" from the root YLD. We also have the Hebrew term "yeled" meaning "boy".
This is similar to the Scottish "lad".
Job was sorry not only for the time he was in. It was so bad that he thought it would have been better off never having been born.
Many have this feeling at times but usually they do not really mean it.
[Job 3:4] May that day be darkness;
May God above not seek it,
Nor the light shine upon it.
[Job 3:5] May darkness and the shadow of death claim it;
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.
blackness. Hebrew "Ca-Camiriri" literally "like the Blackness" from the root CMR denoting Black.
The Israelites in their places of Exile became associated with the Gimirri. The Gimirri were known to the Greeks as Kimmeroi.
They were associated with Clouds of Darkness. So too, in Rabbinical Tradition were the Ten Tribes (Talmud Yerushald mi, Sanhedrin 10).
Homer (possibly from some story as to the Arctic night) supposes the Cimmerians to dwell in a land “beyond the ocean-stream,”where the sun never shone. (Odys., xi. 14.) http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/
brewers/cimmerian-darkness.html
Elsewhere, Homer places the Cimmerians in the British Isles as did a poem written ca.500 BCE by the Greek Orpheus.
We also find the Cymry in Britain and the Cimbri in Denmark and other parts of Scandinavia.
The Welsh call themselves Cumbri, Cymri, Kumeri, and Gumbri and their language "Kumeraeg" or "Gumeraeg".
Strabo (7.2.1) said that the Greeks had called the Cimbri, "Cimmerii", and had known them from the Crimea. Strabo, in effect, identified the Cimbrians with the Cimmerians of old.
Diodorus Siculus (32;4 7) linked the Cimmerians of old, the Galatians [of France], and the Cimbri [of Scandinavia] altogether.
Plutarch (in "Marius") reported the opinion that the Cimmerians, Cimbri, and Scythians, were in effect all members of the one nation whom he calls "Celto-Scythians".
According to the Book of Hosea (ch.1) the Lost Ten Tribes would be identifiable as the Sons of Gomer which indicates the possibility of amalgamation with the Three Sons of Gomer son of Japhet (Genesis ch.10).
[Job 3:6] As for that night, may darkness seize it;
May it not rejoice among the days of the year,
May it not come into the number of the months.
[Job 3:7] Oh, may that night be barren!
May no joyful shout come into it!
[Job 3:8] May those curse it who curse the day,
Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.
The Three Leviathans: Sea-Monster, Gas Field, and British Political Theory.
The Sea-Beast Leviathan.
Leviathan was supposed to be an enormous beast at the bottom of the Sea. Leviathan was deestined to awaken and shake the world.
In Job chapter 41 there is a detailed description of Leviathan.
In English the word Leviathan has often been employed for an enormous unpredictable creature.
The Leviathan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan
# His abode is the Mediterranean Sea; and the waters of the Jordan fall into his mouth (Bek. 55b; B. B. l.c.).
# Leviathan became associated with, and may originally have referred to, the visual motif of the Hellmouth, a monstrous animal into whose mouth the damned disappear at the Last Judgement, found in Anglo-Saxon art from about 800, and later all over Europe.[
# The Young Earth Creationist opinion is that Leviathan and Behemoth are names given to dinosaurs. #
The Natural Gas Field in the Mediterranean Named Leviathan.
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Leviathan is also the name of a field of natural gas in the Mediterranean Sea that could change the future of Israel.
The waters of the field extend into areas of the sea claimed by Israel, Cyprus, Lebanon. Israel has priority. Lebanon and the Palestinians dispute Israels rights. Cyprus is split between people of Greek and Turkish origin: Or rather the Turks in Cyprus are really Greeks who adopted Islam and speak the Turkish language.
The Turkish-speaking section is considered part of Turkey and is occupied by ca. 40,000 Turkish troops.
The Greek section is independent. The Greek section in Cyprus is co-operating with Israel. Turkey has threatened Israel over Leviathan.
The extracts below provide some background on this matter:
Israel's Leviathan Gas Find Will Have Widespread Repercussions for World Power
by Susan Kraemer
http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/12/
leviathan-gas-israel-balance-of-power/
The gigantic $45 billion Leviathan gas find tosses out Israel's previous relationship with the world. The biggest deep-water gas find in a decade has enough reserves to supply Israel's gas needs for 100 years.
There is an estimated 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the entire Levant Basin Province, according to the USGS. It lies within the offshore territory of Israel, Lebanon, Gaza/Palestinian Authority, the Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Leviathan Gas Discovery Could be The Mother of All Resource Curses
by Susan Kraemer
http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/12/
leviathan-gas-discovery-could-be-the-mother
-of-all-resource-curses/
The Leviathan gas field is within the Levant Basin, and it straddles the border of Israel and Lebanon. The disputes between Israel and Lebanon have already begun. The Leviathan field is twice as large as the Tamar gas field, which is 50 miles west of Haifa in 5500 feet of water.
Lebanon-Israel gas dispute widens, report
http://www.yalibnan.com/2010/12/22/lebanon
-israel-gas-dispute-widens/
December 22, 2010
Extracts:
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The dispute over vast natural gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean, centered on Israel and Lebanon, has spread to divided Cyprus, which involves longtime rivals Greece and Turkey.
Israel's discovery of three large fields containing an estimated 25 trillion cubic feet of gas off its northern coast over the last two years has added a whole new energy dimension to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
It has fueled tension between Israel and Lebanon, its northern neighbor, at a time when the Jewish state feels threatened by Iran and its allies, particularly the heavily armed Hezbollah movement in Lebanon.
The Beirut government claims that the biggest of the fields, Leviathan, containing up to 16 trillion cubic feet of gas as well as 4.3 billion barrels of oil, extends into Lebanese territorial waters and has warned Israel not to encroach on its turf.
The Iranian-backed Hezbollah, which runs its own state within a state and has the most powerful forces in Lebanon, has threatened military action if Israel taps into what it deems Lebanese energy resources.
Israel has vowed to retaliate for any attacks on its gas fields and the energy infrastructure that's expected to be developed over the next couple of years.
But the stakes have become much higher. A recent U.S. Geological Survey reported that there's up to 122 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas off the coasts of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Further south, Egypt is already producing gas and selling it to Israel.
On top of all that, the fields extend westward from the Levantine coastline toward Cyprus, - right into another conflict, albeit confined to the diplomatic arena these days, between Greece and Turkey.
Cyprus was dominated by Greek Cypriots until 1974, when Turkey invaded following an Athens-engineered coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece.
Turkey captured the northern one-third of the island. It maintains 40,000 troops in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Only Ankara recognizes the TRNC. The Greek Cypriot government in Nicosia is recognized internationally.
On Dec. 17, Cyprus, which has been exploring for offshore oil and gas fields for some time, and Israel signed an agreement in Nicosia dividing the 155 miles of water that separates them down the middle.
That defined the maritime border between the island and Israel and delineated their exclusive economic zones, or EEZs, allowing them to move ahead with further exploration in the eastern Mediterranean.
Three days later, the Turkish Foreign Ministry tongue-lashed the Israeli ambassador to Ankara, Gaby Levy, and warned, somewhat spuriously, that the agreement undermined efforts to reunify the divided island.
The spat deepened a rift between Israel and Turkey. They were once strategic allies but the relationship nosedived when Israeli commandos killed nine Turks aboard a ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, blockaded by the Israelis, in international waters May 31.
Ankara fears the Greek Cypriots, the majority on the divided island, won't share any wealth they may accrue from offshore gas fields in their 20,400-square-mile EEZ with the Turks in the TRNC.
Leviathan as a British Political Theory
