*Alward: Day of Preparation
JAlw@aol.com JAlw@aol.com
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:19:30 EST (00911535570, 35aae9ac.36549972@aol.com)
In a message dated 98-11-19 17:08:20 EST, you write:
<< Subj: Re: *Alward: Day of Preparation
Date: 98-11-19 17:08:20 EST
From: etyler@truman.edu (Ed Tyler)
Sender: owner-errancy@infidels.org
To: errancy@infidels.org
At 04:30 PM 11/19/98 EST, JAlw@aol.com wrote:
>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
>===============
>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.
>
Ed
The fact that it isn't used for such is pretty good evidence. I checked
the LSJ which contains the comprehensive classical as well as Biblical
concordances and can't find it sued for any other day anywhere. Nor do I
find any definition of Sabbath except for the last day of the week. It
looks like Mooney and Kluepfel are grinding some sectarian axes.
et
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Joe Alward:
Thanks for the added information. I should have mentioned, since you may be
unfamiliar with the earlier posts between Mooney and Kluepfel, that they are
very skeptical about "day of preparation" meaning anything other than Friday.