I wonder how this squares with the Babylonian concept of a round earth. It seems odd that so much was uh, “inspired” by their texts but the shape of the earth was exempted.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astronomy#:~:text....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astronomy#:~:text....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_Map_of_the_World
This idea probably wasn't unique to the Babylonians, but this approximation of a disc-shaped Earth was fairly commonplace up to and including the Exhilic Period (biblical texts likely being influenced, at least in part, by the Babylonian views though much of the text is certainly constructed of polemic narratives).