![]() ![]() ![]() Psalm 104.3,6-9, as 'the waters' and 'the deep', which uncovered the earth when God spoke it so.Psalm 74.13, as 'the sea' and 'the waters' (and metaphorically as 'the sea monsters' and 'leviathan'), which God 'divided', 'broke', and 'crushed' as the first act of creation.Genesis 1.2,6-7,9,etc., as 'the deep' and 'the waters', so that the earth was created between 'the waters above' and 'the waters below' when God spoke it so.The world is created inside of this chaotic sea. The main biblical texts that describe the cosmos as a whole are Genesis 1, Psalm 74.12-17, Psalm 104, Job 26.5-14, Job 37, Job 38, Proverbs 3.19-20, and Proverbs 8.22-36, along with a few pieces here and there where a particular cosmology is assumed by the writer.Īncient Israelite cosmology begins with a mess of waters, representing the pre-creation chaos. ![]() But if we can determine the overall shape of the cosmos as the different writers describe it, we'll be able to know if a 'flat earth' is an accurate label for what the ancient biblical authors believed. When we read the Hebrew scriptures, the few books that have anything to say on the subject never explicitly say 'the earth is flat'. The question is really an issue of what kind of cosmology the authors of the various biblical books assume in the course of their writing. ![]()
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