Re: The "solid" firmament of Genesis

Oliver Beck (Oliver.Beck@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de)
Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:37:57 +0100 (MEZ)

On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, R. Joel Duff wrote:

> A long and interesting discourse follows showing from Biblical
> and ancient non-biblical texts that all ancient cultures believed
> the sky to be solid,

> The early Christian church held strongly to the view that there
> was a real body of water above the solid sky

Whom is he citing and what references does he give?

> The question from this is how far into Genesis
> do we carry these types of interpretations, just chapters 1 and 2
> or 1-11?

One can only interpret the first chapters of Genesis as the last and the
rest of the bible.

God bless you

Oliver