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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Circle חוג
  • Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:53:21 UT

It is also probably worth noting that neither the LXX nor the Vulgate
translate these terms with words meaning "ball, sphere" even though such were
available.

This then also fits with what we know of ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and
Canaanite cosmologies. Against this background it certainly doesn't seem that
Isaiah or Job are sufficiently unambiguous to compel someone holding such a
view to believe the Earth was spherical and so any person in the ancient
world hearing these words would simply assume that their flat-Earth (although
possibly spherical cosmos) view was not being challenged.

Martin Shields,
Sydney, Australia.




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