Reply #50: I agree-bad enough they use Greek Letters in the weather report-but Hebrew

[papau]

letters in discussions of the relative sizes of a two items of infinite size is hard to get ones head around! :-)

However we disagree on the validity of the assumption that flat was the standard view even among the average Joes in the way back.

I submit the average Joe view was "no opinion - never thought about it"

The Bible clearly has a lot of sphere-ness like comment, and no spot on flat earth comment.

Tops of Mountains touching the heaven - or Gods living at the top - is indeed a common idea across culture - and flat world would be the common experience as folks took a 1000 years to migrate a 1000 miles - but I doubt any folks thought about it as a question to be answered.