The Biblical Cosmos: A Pilgrim's Guide to the Weird and Wonderful World of the Bible

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 would 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 Parry (PhD) is Minor Canon for Eco Spirituality at Worcester Cathedral in England and an academic books editor for Wipf and Stock Publishers. He has published books on Genesis, Lamentations, trinitarian worship, deep church, universal salvation, biblical cosmology, and eco-spirituality.

Hannah Parry is an archaeology student.