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  • From: James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>
  • To: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] FW: Hebrew calender, years, months, weeks and days
  • Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 06:05:55 +0100

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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