NMC104H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Firmament, Sheol, Tehom
4 Apr 2016
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Diiculies in translaions + review of lectures (next tut) Cosmos depicion: meaning of the bible: chapter, psalms 104, job 38-41, isaiah 40-45. Celesial bodies (moon, sun, stars) in the sky. Imagine earth as lat land surrounded by waters. Primordial waters above the irmament and below the earth. The underworld (sheol) as a physical place under the earth. Someimes the mountains were holding up the irmament. Pillars to hold up the earth and pillars of the sky. Could also be in the sheol or walking on earth. Hebrew word for the abyss: tehom, pg 201 in textbook: associated with tiamat. T at the end of tiamat is feminine in acadian. She is later divided into two (waters above and waters below) by. He blew wind in her mouth to make her bloated then slayed her. Image of god: mesopotamian kings and pharaohs.
