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    "technical_name": "Cosmic battle, dragon, serpent, Leviathan/Rahab, heavenly war, Satan’s fall, and enemy-crushing imagery",
    "alternate_names": "dragon imagery; serpent imagery; cosmic battle imagery; heavenly war imagery; Leviathan imagery; Rahab imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Spiritual conflict, chaos monsters, Satan, enemy defeat, messianic victory, and final judgment / Cosmic battle imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Cosmic battle imagery uses serpent, dragon, Leviathan, heavenly war, or enemy-crushing language to picture spiritual conflict and God’s triumph over evil.",
    "technical_definition": "A conflict-and-chaos motif in which serpent, dragon, Leviathan, Rahab, heavenly war, Satanic fall, or crushing language signifies spiritual opposition, chaotic evil, demonic powers, messianic victory, divine conquest, or final judgment of the adversary.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 43 draft-normalized cosmic-battle imagery review; distinguish Edenic serpent, chaos-monster poetry, spiritual warfare, and Revelation’s dragon symbolism.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 3:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "enmity... between thy seed and her seed",
      "explanation": "The serpent conflict establishes a biblical pattern of enemy opposition and promised defeat.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Job 26:12-13",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "he divideth the sea... the crooked serpent",
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      "reference": "Ps. 74:13-14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "brakest the heads of the dragons",
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      "reference": "Isa. 27:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "leviathan the piercing serpent",
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      "reference": "Isa. 51:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "that cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon",
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      "reference": "Luke 10:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Satan as lightning fall from heaven",
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      "reference": "John 12:31",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the prince of this world be cast out",
      "explanation": "The cross is framed as judgment on the ruler of this world.",
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      "reference": "Eph. 6:12",
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      "reference": "Rev. 12:7-9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "war in heaven... that old serpent",
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      "reference": "Rev. 20:2",
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