I discussed this with an archeologist a few years back. He assured me that
the imagery of a flat earth was imposed on scripture by a nineteenth century
scholar who espoused the view that the ancients can't have known anything so
sophisticated as the nature of the earth. It was, according to my friend,
he that popularized the dome and pillar model of the earth, etc. that had
been a feature of ancient extrabiblical mythology. I will try to
substantiate this though.
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