[b-hebrew] FW: Hebrew calender, years, months, weeks and days

James Read J.Read-2 at sms.ed.ac.uk
Thu May 14 01:05:55 EDT 2009


Is there any chance you could copy and paste the relevant bit? I can't  
open the pdf because of some kind of base object error. (BTW, weighing  
in at almost 50MB, that's the biggest pdf I've seen)

James Christian


Quoting Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir at gmail.com>:

> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:56 PM, James Read wrote:
>>
>> Further, reconstruction of a broken tablet seems to define the rarely
>> attested Sapattum or Sabattum as the 15th day of the lunation, more or
>> less the full moon. This word is cognate with Hebrew Shabbat, but is
>> monthly rather than weekly; it is regarded as a form of Sumerian
>> sa-bat ("mid-rest"), attested in Akkadian as um nuh libbi ("day of
>> mid-repose"). This conclusion is a contextual restoration of the
>> damaged Enûma Eliš creation account, which reads: "[Sa]bbath shalt
>> thou then encounter, mid[month]ly."[1]
>>
>>  From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_calendar
>
> For a more dependable source than Wikipedia, see:
> http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/cad_s_shin_1.pdf
> (p. 449-450, 477-8 in the pdf).
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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