According to biblical scholars, alukah can mean "blood-lusting monster" or vampire. Alukah is first referred to in Proverbs 30 of the Bible (Prov. 30:15). The most detailed description of the alukah appears in Sefer Chasidim, where the creature is understood to be a living human being, but can shape-change into a wolf.
There is a legend amongst the Hebrew people that tags Judas, betrayer of Christ, as the original vampire. We know from ancient texts that Vampires were present on the Earth prior to Jesus' crucifixion, yet the legend is still quite intriguing.
Mikael is the father of the Originals, and the father of the vampire race as a whole.
Nebuchadnezzar was exiled as king of Babylon, stripped down naked, literally transformed into a werewolf, and he lived in the forest with other wild beasts for SEVEN long years!
Biblical scholars describe Alukah as a succubus or vampire, perhaps a cognate of Lilith, a female demon in rabbinic literature who derives from Mesopotamian demonology. In Hebrew, alukah means “horseleech,” a type of leech with many teeth that feeds in the throats of animals.
The Bible mentions the Lilith only once, as a dweller in waste places (Isaiah 34:14), but the characterization of the Lilith or the lili (in the singular or plural) as a seducer or slayer of children has a long pre-history in ancient Babylonian religion.
Daniel 4:31-32. Nebuchadnezzar lives like an animal for seven years. Unlike any other king to live on earth, he rules over men and beasts, experiencing both the human and animal kingdom's ways of life.
Numerous legendary creatures are attested in Christian mythology. These include the Behemoth, Leviathan, Angels, Demons, Nephilim, Re'em, Ziz and dragons.
And so, after refusing to repent, Nebuchadnezzar is struck by the curse of what is believed to be lycanthropy for the next seven years, and it was like there was a werewolf in Babylon.
The wolf is repeatedly mentioned in the scriptures as an enemy of flocks: a metaphor for evil men with a lust for power and dishonest gain, as well as a metaphor for Satan preying on innocent God-fearing Christians, contrasted with the shepherd Jesus who keeps his flock safe.
The show revolves around three Mikaelson siblings, Klaus (Joseph Morgan), Elijah (Daniel Gillies), and Rebekah (Claire Holt), collectively known as "original vampires", or simply the "originals". The Originals is set in the city of New Orleans.
Jure Grando Alilović or Giure Grando (1579–1656) was a villager from the region of Istria (in modern-day Croatia) who may have been the first real person described as a vampire in historical records.
After Akasha is finally destroyed, Khayman becomes the oldest vampire in existence. He is briefly mentioned at the end of Blood Canticle, when he takes away the fledgling vampires Quinn Blackwood and Mona Mayfair to Maharet and Mekare's sanctuary.
At the beginning of the 11th century, the family was mortal until the loss of Esther and Mikael's youngest child, Henrik, to a werewolf attack spurred them to use Esther's magic to turn Mikael and the rest of their living children into the world's first vampires, from whom all vampires are descended.
Lazarus sought to save from its decline and in doing so, he founded the Darkwatch to combat a demonic invasion. However, he himself ended up becoming possessed by a demon and became a powerful vampire.
Judas Iscariot was the treasurer for the Twelve Apostles. Other than his apostleship, his betrayal, and his death, little is revealed about Judas in the Gospels.
According to Daniel, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar suffers from a mental illness, and lives isolated for seven years, until he acknowledges the power of the one God. From cuneiform texts, nothing is known about Nebuchadnezzar's mental health.
Earlier in Daniel 4 we learn that Nebuchadnezzar had a dream that made him afraid. Daniel interpreted the dream, telling the king that he would become like an animal if he did not give up his sinful pride. But Nebuchadnezzar didn't listen. What was the cure for Nebuchadnezzar's sin?
Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a great tree that shelters the whole world, but an angelic "watcher" appears and decrees that the tree must be cut down and that for seven years, he will have his human mind taken away and will eat grass like an ox.
There are later descriptions of creatures in the Bible that could be referring to dinosaurs. One example is the behemoth of Job 40:15-19. Even in fairly modern history there are reports of creatures which seem to fit the description of dinosaurs.
The Leviathan is often an embodiment of chaos and threatening to eat the damned after their life. In the end, it is annihilated. Christian theologians identified Leviathan with the demon of the deadly sin envy.
The idea of the Hebrew here is that out of all the animals, the serpent alone was selected to be cursed.
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In the year 1173 B.C., Ehud, a lone assassin chosen by the high priest of God, is sent on a virtually impossible mission: kill Eglon, the ruthless, egomaniacal king of Moab. Only Ehud, the left-handed Hebrew from the tribe of Benjamin, can successfully execute such an assignment.
Behemoth (/bɪˈhiːməθ, ˈbiːə-/; Hebrew: בְּהֵמוֹת, bəhēmōṯ) is a beast from the biblical Book of Job, and is a form of the primeval chaos-monster created by God at the beginning of creation; he is paired with the other chaos-monster, Leviathan, and according to later Jewish tradition both would become food for the ...
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Eglon reigned over the Israelites for 18 years. One day, Ehud, who was left handed, came presenting a customary tribute and tricked Eglon and stabbed him with his sword, but when Ehud attempted to draw the sword back out, the obese king's excess fat prevented its retrieval.