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Tag: Omphalos
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Jerusalem as the Omphalos of the World
Philip Alexander
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Tablet
· 10 May 2021
The concept of Jerusalem as the center of the world and the navel of the earth originated in the Book of Jubilees, a retelling of the Book of Genesis composed in Second Temple times.