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. Table of Contents "Preface Acknowledgments 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 8. Christ’s in the House: Jesus and the Biblical Cosmos Part IV: Can We Inhabit the Biblical Cosmos? 9. How Can We Inhabit the Biblical Cosmos Today? 10. The Cosmic Temple Today 11. The Biblical Heavens Today 12. The Biblical Earth Today Bibliography Scripture Index" Parry is to be commended for bringing biblical cosmology to life in vivid, accessible language. (Ann Conway-Jones 22:4, 2015 ) This hugely enjoyable book has much to commend it. …do I recommend this book? Certainly, with a resounding 'yes'… (Andrew Angel 119.1 2016 ) Robin Parry is an editor at Wipf and Stock Publishers.