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In a message dated 11/19/98 4:24:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
etyler@truman.edu writes:

<< 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
  >>
Charlie
I take it the first two meanings are something else entirely?

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