Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????
| From: | Tom Tadfor Little <tom@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 26, 2001, 20:52 |
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>The week was obviously born in the Semitic tradition. Which raises the
>question of what was the original first day of the week.
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>a) ...and on the seventh day HE rested... Well, the rest day is Sunday, so
>day one must have been Monday.
The rest day was moved from Saturday to Sunday in the Christian tradition.
Biblically speaking, it is the Jewish sabbath (Saturday) that would
correspond to the "Seventh day" in Genesis.
Cheers, Tom
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