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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ] A VISUAL EXPRESSION OF A THEOLOGICAL IDEA OF THESKY/HEAVEN ( Rolf's Response 2)
  • Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:32:07 UT

Rolf,

"And I am not aware of any writing from Assyrian or Babylonian times which
indicate that the people of that time believed in a solid vault with water
above. it seems that they had many cosmological ideas that paralles our
modern ideas."

Take a look at Horowitz's Babylonian Cosmic Geography. It includes numerous
such texts, many of which depict a "firmament" made of stone (usually blue in
colour, or else transparent with something blue above it). Similar ideas are
evident in ancient Egyptian depictions of the cosmos. If anything, the
evidence seems to point to the solid barrier above the atmosphere as being
the default understanding of the cosmos in the ancient world.

Regards,

Martin Shields,
Sydney, Australia.




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