However, as explained by the Catholic blog St. Something like a gigantic cake stand covered with one of those classic glass or acrylic domes, if you will. 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.

You guessed it right: those are the “upper waters” and, above them, the “high heaven” or the “heaven of heavens”, where God Himself dwells, as can be seen in the graphic. Now above the dome, in the “outside” of the dome (who’d say?) you’d find even more water. Something like a gigantic cake stand covered with one of those classic glass domes, if you will.Īs you can see in the diagram included, below the disk you would find the Sheol (that is, the place of the dead, but not necessarily Hell actually, this Sheol is a bit more like what the Greeks called Hades) and the so-called “deep waters”, the “waters underneath” or, even more dramatically, “the great deep.” 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.

Ancient Hebrew cosmology is full of subtleties that often go unnoticed by the contemporary reader

Flat earth map gif