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Ancient Near East
Hebrew Bible
Pseudepigrapha
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In the ancient Near East, many cultures imagined the sky as a solid dome or firmament that separated the heavens above from the earth below. This idea appears across Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Israelite thought, reflecting a common cosmological worldview. In the Hebrew Bible, starting in Genesis 1, the word “raqia” is used to describe this firmament, which is described as dividing the “waters above” from the “waters below.” This conception of the sky as a physical barrier reveals how ancient peoples interpreted their environment using the observable features of the natural world.
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