![]() This entry was posted in Firmament/Raqia, Genesis 1, Science & scripture on Jby COD. mid-13c. Many modern scholars consign the term firmament as a relic of a pre-scientific culture and translate the Hebrew word raqia as a dome or vault in some. The grammatical evidence from the OT, which we shall examine later, reflects and confirms this conception Continue reading â ![]() The historical evidence, however, which we will set forth in concrete detail, shows that the raqia c was originally conceived of as being solid and not a merely atmospheric expanse. Something like a gigantic cake stand covered. 4 The raqia c defined as an atmospheric expanse is the historical view according to modern conservatives and the modern view of the raqia c as a solid dome is simply the result of forcing biblical poetic language into agreement with a concept found in the Babylonian epic In a nutshell, ancient Hebrew cosmology, as found in the Old Testament, considers the world in which we live a relatively flat disk, covered by a dome. 3 The word raqia c, they say, simply means âexpanse.â They say the understanding of raqia c as a solid firmament rests on the Vulgateâs translation, firmamentum and that translation rests in turn on the LXXâs translation stere ![]() in verse) Genesis 1:8 (called all P), Psalm 19:2 ('' ), Daniel 12:3 also Genesis 1:14,15,17. The most striking feature of the Old Testament world is the firmament, a solid dome which separates the waters from the waters (Gen. The division made by God, according to the P account of creation, to restrain the cosmic water and form the sky (Gen. 2 Some conservatives have taken special pains to reject the concept of a solid dome on the basis that the Bible also refers to the heavens as a tent or curtain and that refer- ences to windows and pillars of heaven are obviously poetic. 2 the vault of heaven, or firmament, regarded by Hebrews as solid, and supporting waters above it, Genesis 1:6,7 (3 t. 1 Conservative scholars from Calvin on down to the present, however, have defined it as an atmospheric expanse. This word may also be pronounced as ârakia,â without separating the last syllable. STANDARD Hebrew lexica and a number of modern biblical scholars have defined the raqia c (fyqr, âfirmamentâ) of Gen 1:6-8 as a solid dome over the earth. ![]()
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