Leviathan in popular culture also make their appearance in the 5th book, the "Princeps' Fury", when Aleran and Canim armies cross the sea on ships. Mike Carey's ongoing comic "The Unwritten" features Leviathan as a central character/force of nature that lies at the heart of the plot. In the book - Prisoner, Jailor, Prime Minister, the author - Tabrik C has used Leviathan as a chapter name, essentially comparing the antagonist to the biblical sea monster. "Escape from Leviathan" is a book on libertarian philosophy by J C Lester. "Leviathan" is the title of a piece in David Sedaris's 2018 collection of essays, "Calypso."
Biblical criticism with the understanding that historical biblical criticism's focus on historicity produced a distinction between the meaning of what the text says and what it is about (what it references). This produced doubts about the text's veracity. The theologian Hans Frei writes that what he refers to as the "realistic narratives" of literature, including the Bible, don't allow for such separation. Subject matter is identical to verbal meaning and is found in plot and nowhere else. "As Frei puts it, scripture 'simultaneously depicts and renders the reality (if any) of what it talks about'; its subject matter is 'constituted by, or