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The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

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THE ASTRONOMICAL BOOK 17<br />

FIG. 2. <strong>The</strong> Babylonian map <strong>of</strong> the world<br />

<strong>The</strong> geographical horizons <strong>of</strong> the author are astonishingly wide, and they<br />

correspond well with the boundaries <strong>of</strong> the enormous Persian empire, with<br />

those <strong>of</strong> the Hellenistic empire less well. <strong>The</strong> cartographic information at his<br />

disposal is in remarkable contrast to that reflected in the Babylonian map<br />

<strong>of</strong> the world, going back to an original from the beginning <strong>of</strong> the first<br />

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