The Biblical Cosmos: back cover blurb and table of contents

October 16, 2014

The Biblical Cosmos: back cover blurb and table of contents

For those of you who want to know a little more about the book, here is the back cover blurb.

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Bible

When we read Scripture we often imagine that the world inhabited by the Bible’s characters was much the same as our own. We’d be wrong. The biblical world is an ancient world with a flat earth that stands at the center of the cosmos, and with a vast ocean in the sky, chaos dragons, mystical mountains, demonic deserts, an underground zone for the dead, stars that are sentient beings, and, if you travel upwards and through the doors in the solid dome of the sky, God’s heaven—the heart of the universe.

This book takes readers on a guided tour of the biblical cosmos with the goal of opening up the Bible in its ancient world. It then goes further and seeks to show how this very ancient biblical way of seeing the world is still revelatory and can speak God’s word afresh into our own modern worlds.

Robin A. Parry (the geeza wot wrote the book) is an editor at Wipf and Stock Publishers;
Hannah Parry (the lady wot illustrated the book) is an archaeology student

Table of Contents

Introduction: Welcome to the Biblical Cosmos

Part I: A Tour of the Biblical Earth

1. Joining the Flat Earth Society: The Big Picture

2. Here Be Dragons! The Sea

3. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Land

4. A Land Down Under: Sheol/Hades

Part II: A Tour of the Biblical Heavens

5. Eyes in Their Stars: The Sky /

6. Brighter than a Thousand Suns: God’s Heaven /

Part III: The House of God: Temple and Cosmos

7. God’s in the House: The Temple and the Biblical Cosmos