Is it relevant that, apparently, "the land of Egypt itself was visualized as an eye...called the eye of the earth" (cf. Eberhard Otto, "Auge," LexÄg, I, 559-661) – and that the passages in the HB in which עין הארץ appears all involve Egypt?
Stewart Felker
University of Memphis
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