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Title: Astronomy in the Old Testament
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Schiaparelli, G. V. (Giovanni Virginio), 1835-1910
Subjects: Astronomy in the Bible Jewish astronomy
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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gure, which is designed to render the pre- 1 An allusion to this symmetrical arrangement might perhaps befound in Job xi. 8 and Psalm cxxxix. 8. 38 Astronomy in the Old Testament ceding account more clear and aid the readers imagination,I have drawn the universe as a spheroid depressed in thisway. By comparing it with the Biblical data, the readerwill easily be able to judge how much foundation of factthere is in it, and how much hypothesis \ 1 In Figure 1: ABC = the upper heaven; ADC = the curve of theabyss; AEC = the plane of the earth and seas ; SRS = various parts ofthe sea; EEE = various parts of the earth ; GHG = the profile of thefirmament or lower heaven ; KK = the storehouses of the winds;LL =» the storehouses of the upper waters, of snow, and of hail;M = the space occupied by the air, within which the clouds move;NN =*» the waters of the great abyss; xxx = the fountains of the greatabyss; PP = Sheol or limbo; Q = the lower part of the same, theinferno properly so called. B
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1> Fig. 1. Heaven, the earth, and the abysses, according to the writers of the OldTestament. CHAPTER III THE STARS The sun and the moon. — Their course stopped by Joshua and others.— Allusions to a total eclipse, probably that of 831 B. c. —The heaven of stars. — The host of heaven. — The planets:Venus and Saturn. — Comets and bolides. — Fall of meteorites. —Astrology. 26. Round about the cosmic body or system which wehave described above, composed of the firmament and ofthe earth with the abysses, and representing the central andimmovable part of the universe, are gathered the stars, and,primarily, the sun and moon, placed, as it seems, at not verydifferent distances from the earth \ The sun (shemesh) is themost magnificent work of the Almighty: he cometh forth asa bridegroom from his nuptial chamber, he rejoiceth as ahero in his victorious course: he ariseth from one end of theheaven, and his circuit reacheth to the other end thereof;nothing is taken away from hiscu31924029281842

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