*Alward: Day of Preparation
David Billo dbillo@telos.ca
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 14:49:24 -0500 (00911699364, 199811211946.OAA16415@telos.ca)
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> From: Ed Tyler <etyler@truman.edu>
> To: errancy@infidels.org
> Subject: Re: *Alward: Day of Preparation
> Date: Thursday, November 19, 1998 5:07 PM
>
> 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.
>
DB
Sabbath just means a day of rest.
The idea of a sabbath other than saturday, or a so-called 'high sabbath',
as I understand it, is derived from verses in Deut. and Levit. outlining
certain feast days:
EX.12:6 seems to suggest that the passover would fall on the fourteenth day
of the month, and v.16 suggests that the passover was also a 'sabbath'.
LEV 23:24,25 refers to the feast of trumpets as a 'sabbath', and this feast
falls on the first day of the seventh month.
LEV. 23:26-32 refers to the day of atonement as a 'sabbath', and this feast
falls on the tenth day of the seventh month. Also v.39 lists a consecutive
sabbath on the fifteenth day.
The 'harmonization' then proposes that one of these feasts, possibly
passover, fell on friday of the week of the crucifixion, was referred to by
the gospel writers as a sabbath, and had a day of preparation on thursday.
So the theory goes, anyhow. There must be some way of determining on which
days of the week these various feasts would have occurred around the time
of the crucifixion. There's a nice little project for Joe!
db