> Rather, these are translated into fantastic
vague terms such as: Leviathan, dragon or behemoth.
All of which can be used to mean any fictitious
monster.
>
The sea monsters mentioned here are direct
borrowing from ancient Canaanite poetry as
preserved in Ugaritic.
There exists quite a scholarly literature
on the subject.
BTW, the following remark does not refer to
anything you wrote, Karl:
It is indeed sad that the author/s of Exodus
did not concieve of this work as a tour Guide,
or Baedecker of Egypt.