Like every other culture thought at the time. So, in fact, Isaiah 40:22 says the earth is a flat disk. Even Greek translations by ancient Rabbinical experts used gyron, “circle,” rather than sphaira, “sphere,” so even they understood this to mean circle and not sphere. The word for ball, instead, derives from heaping things up, from huts to garbage piles (a three-dimensional activity). It refers to walking around a thing (a two-dimensional activity). The word for sphere is duwr (Isaiah 22:18). The word for circle is chuwg (Job 22:14 and 26:10 Proverbs 8:27). Isaiah 40:22 does not say the earth is a sphere. I also highly recommend Ed Babinski’s excellent article “The Cosmology of the Bible,” in The Christian Delusion, which puts the Bible’s “science” in the context of its surrounding cultures, finding it pretty much is just copying them, often badly, and getting things just as wrong in result. Isaiah 40:22 (RSV) It is he who sits above the circle of the earth. I’m responding to a portion of Carrier’s article, “Science Then: The Bible vs. In 2008, Carrier received a doctorate in ancient history from Columbia University, where he studied the history of science in antiquity.” He has publicly debated a number of scholars on the historical basis of the Bible and Christianity. A long-time contributor to self-published skeptical web sites, including The Secular Web and Freethought Blogs, Carrier has published a number of books and articles on philosophy and religion in classical antiquity, discussing the development of early Christianity from a skeptical viewpoint, and concerning religion and morality in the modern world. Richard Carrier (born in 1969), a former Protestant atheist, is, according to Wikipedia, “an American historian, author, and activist, whose work focuses on empiricism, atheism, and the historicity of Jesus.
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