Leviathan in popular culture is still guarding the entrance to Atlantis, but didn't attack Milo's friends upon their return since, thanks to their crystals, it knew they were friends. In the "Hellraiser" series by Clive Barker, the deity that rules Hell is named Leviathan. However, this being takes the form of a gigantic lozenge, rotating in the air above its realm, and pertains in no other way to a sea monster. A season one episode of "Martin Mystery" had Martin and his friends dealing with a Leviathan that was guarding undersea treasure. In the television series "Supernatural", the Leviathans are an ancient race of
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