*Alward: Day of Preparation
Ed Tyler etyler@truman.edu
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 17:47:56 -0600 (00911540876, 3.0.5.32.19981119174756.0095adf0@pop.truman.edu)
At 05:19 PM 11/19/98 EST, JAlw@aol.com wrote:
>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
>===================
>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.
>
>
Ed
So am I. I don't see how it can possibly signify anything else in the
instances where it's used.