Mr. Ex,
In
Message 145 you asked why I disagree. I'm attaching the reply to
Message 130 because that's where your info was and it makes it easier for me to refer to it.
quote:
No. I've demonstrated a scientifically verified pattern throughout all life which quite accurately verifies what the Scriptures apparently were saying all along.
You have shown that science has found a seven day rhythm among other rhythms within living things. I don't feel that you have made a true connection between humans using a seven day week and this natural rhythm.
You have shown that "weeks" have varied in length among cultures.
"Weeks" varying in length from three to nineteen days have existed in past cultures.
Did those cultures change the length of their week because of their internal rhythm or because a stronger culture took over?
Did having a longer or shorter week adversely affect their physical health?
The seven day week is associated with
Babylonian Astronomy.
The seven-day cycle makes its earliest appearance in Babylonian documents of the 7th century BCE. It is not quite yet the week as we know it, however. In origin, it seems to have been one fourth of the approximate time in a month the moon was visible. In short, it does not include the days around the new moon, and is not therefore a continuous cycle. To picture what this "week" was like, imagine one of our months with four regular weeks, and then a few epagomenal days at the end of the month, which do not belong to any week.
The Jews adjusted what the Babylonians started.
Another difference between the Hebrew and the Babylonian calendar is the treatment of the 7-day cycle. Recall that the Babylonians had a 7-day cycle, but the days around the new moon when it was invisible were not included. In the Jewish scheme, the 7-day intervals between Sabbaths runs independently of the months and years. There are no epagomenal days. The days are numbered 1 to 7. Only the Sabbath, the seventh day, is named, although day 6 is sometimes called ereb shabbat, "the day preceding the Sabbath."
They just started counting and started over after seven.
According to the book by Paul Johnson,"A History of the Jews", the Jews were influenced by Babylonian astronomy.
The concept of the Sabbath, strongly reinforced by what they learned from Babylonian astronomy, became the focus of the Jewish week, and 'Shabbetai' was the most popular new name invented during the Exile.
The Jewish calendar was also reformed during the common era.
In the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, the Jewish calendar was reformed. The primary purpose of this reform was to regularize the intercalation of months and the length of the months. Using the Metonic cycle of 19 solar years, months are intercalated in years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19 of the cycle, exactly the same spacing as in the Babylonian cycle.
I don't see the relationship between the seven day week and our seven day rhythm other than the number seven.
Does the first day of our seven day cycle always start on the first day of the week? If not, then I don't see where one affects the other.
"I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows." -Janette Barber-
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