*Alward: Day of Preparation

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In a message dated 98-11-19 16:24:47 EST, you write:

<< Subj:	 Re: more of my story...
 Date:	98-11-19 16:24:47 EST
 From:	etyler@truman.edu (Ed Tyler)
 Sender:	owner-errancy@infidels.org
 To:	errancy@infidels.org
 
 At 03:19 PM 11/19/98 -0800, Farrell Till wrote:
 >BLACKFOOT
 >>According to Matthew and the others, Jesus died on the
 >>"ninth hour" of Preparation-Day of the week of Passover.
 >>It is well-established that the word, Paraskeuen (from
 >>the Greek for "preparation") was commonly used in the
 >>first century and thereafter as a name meaning,
 >>"Day-before-weekly-sabbath". It required no article,
 >>and is the same as saying "Friday".
 >
 >TILL
 >If this is so, I would be very interested in seeing supporting
documentation.
 >
 >Farrell Till
 >Skepticism, Inc.
 >jftill@midwest.net
 >
 >
 Ed
 
 One would be the Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek, which
 reads in its third definition of the word:
 
 III. among the Jews, the day of Preparation, before the sabbath of the
 Passover, v.Marc.15.42, Ev.Jo.19.14,au=Ev.Jo. 19.31=lr, etc. ; hêmera
 paraskeuês Ev.Luc.23.54. 
 
 et
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Joe Alward:

Currently unresolved--perhaps only in my mind--is the question of whether "a
day of preparation" can precede a "sabbath" which is not the weekly sabbath.
I say "unresolved", because I'm not sure how the discussion between Mooney and
Kluepfel ended--if it did.  They were alluding to "sabbaths" on Thursday and
Wednesday.  Can anyone add more information?

Also, the definition above only shows that that the day (Friday) before the
weekly sabbath (Saturday) was called the "day of preparation" (paraskeuen).  I
would like to see evidence that "paraskeuen" couldn't be used for other days.

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