(November 18, 2019 at 12:06 am)Belacqua Wrote:(November 17, 2019 at 11:01 pm)Jehanne Wrote: From the Wikipedia link that I posted earlier:
Thank you. That's more people, and more authoritative, than I would have expected.
Could be inspired by a literal interpretation of verses like in Revelation. Says nothing about the original intent of the author though.
The thing is, though, that in the OT the Earth cosmology seems to be that of a disc rather than a rectangle. And I'm not aware of contemporary Greek models of Earth implying a rectangular form of a flat earth.