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Some [[Christians]] believe that Leviathan was a [[dinosaur]] (probably a [[Plesiosaurus]]), other sources speculate that it was a [[crocodile]].
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Some [[Christians]] believe that Leviathan was a [[dinosaur]] (probably a [[Plesiosaurus]]), other sources speculate that it was a [[crocodile]] or a [[whale]]. In ''[[Moby Dick]]'', the [[narrator]] Ishmael often uses the word leviathan to refer to whales.
    
''Leviathan'' is also the name of a book written in the seventeenth century by [[Thomas Hobbes]]. In it he reflects on the need for strong central [[government]].<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3207 Full text of Hobbes's Leviathan]</ref>
 
''Leviathan'' is also the name of a book written in the seventeenth century by [[Thomas Hobbes]]. In it he reflects on the need for strong central [[government]].<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3207 Full text of Hobbes's Leviathan]</ref>
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