*Alward: Day of Preparation
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Fri, 20 Nov 1998 13:28:22 EST (00911608102, 52729c17.3655b4c6@aol.com)
Ed
This LSJ, which is the most comprehensive resource available, gives no
instance in which the term sabbath can reasonably be understood to signify
any day other than our Saturday, i.e. the last day of the week.
Forthermore, the OT expressly defines Sabbath, and you don't find any such
possibility.
It looks to me as if the inerrantists are once again blowing smoke; perhaps
it would be best to check with some of the Jewish sources as was done in
the "ken" debate just to make sure.
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>If Passover started on Thursday (that year) and can be called a sabbath,
>of course it can be used to avoid the contradiction between the
>prediction of 3 days and 3 nights and the 2 nights and 1 day. If Jesus
>were buried on Wednesday evening, he would have been buried for Wed,
>Thur, and Fri night and all day Thur, Fri, and Sat. They have him up and
>about Sat evening, even though nobody noted it until Sunday morning.
>Maybe he was visiting some folks in hell during the night.
>
>There are some other things wrong with this scenario. One of them being
>that if the women were going to anoint the body it makes no sense that
>they would have waited until Sunday to do it, when they would have
>expected the body to "stinkith". They would certainly have done it on
>Friday. Of course, if only Saturday can be called the sabbath, that is a
>much more serious problem with the "harmonization".
>
Ed
The waiting until Sunday can be explained by the possibility that the body
wasn't put in the tomb until right before sundown Friday, so they couldn't
work on it until Sunday morning; however, this shoots the interpretation of
the Thursday Sabbath in the foot, because then they wouldn't have come on
Sunday morning; they'd have come on Friday morning. The NT specifies that
it was the "first day of the week," i.e. the day after the Saturday sabbath.
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Joe Alward:
Excellent point; thanks for making it.