Extent of the World as Envisaged in the Book of Genesis
Paul H. Seely's Genesis-based estimate of the entire extent of the then - known world, as given below, accords perfectly with my own estimate of it, as I have argued in: The Location of Paradise (Genesis 2:10-2:14) https://www.academia.edu/8128509/The_Location_of_Paradise_Genesis_2 and in: Just How ‘Global’ Was The Great Flood? (Genesis 6-9). https://www.academia.edu/8106040/Just_How_Global_Was_The_Great_Flood Seely writes ( https://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/otesources/01-genesis/text/articles-books/seely_babel_wtj.pdf ): "We should perhaps stop, however, to note just how large the earth was understood to be by the biblical writer. The extent of the earth in the understanding of the biblical writer is given in Gen 10. The northern boundary is marked by the peoples around the Black Sea (Gen 10:2; Ezek 38:6). The southern boundary is marked by peoples living in the extreme south of the Arabian peninsula (Gen 10:7: cf. Matt 1...