>YOU ARE CAUGHT UP IN A LITERAL
>UNDERSTANDING OF THE 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS.
I think there is good evidence to take this literally because the Jewish
system of counting days was based on these 12 hour spans (onah). There
was a "night span" and a "day span". The reference for this in the
Yerushalmi Talmud is Sabbat 9:3. In the Babylonian Talmud the reference
is 86a - 87a. Even in Genesis 1 it say that EVENING and MORNING were the
first day. A day was considered to have 2 parts. The evening was
followed by the night span (onah) the morning was followed by the day
span (onah).
>THE JEWS REGARDED A PART OF THE
>DAY AS ITS WHOLE.
What documentation is there for this? In the Talmud it says that a part
of an "onah" which is a 12 hour span either from 6am to 6pm or else 6pm
to 6am can be regarded as a whole of it (meaning a whole SPAN). From
this statement I have seen people say that a part of a DAY was regarded
as a WHOLE day (24 hours). But in my understanding that is not the
context. It actually says "part of a span is equivalent to the whole of
it".
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