James wrote,
2) Recourse to similar cultures e.g. babylonian, sumerian and their calendars
Its worth noting that the Egyptians used a 10-day week so not all of
Israel's neighbours used a seven day week. In fact, there's a lot of
variation in the length of the ``week'' between cultures. Here's useful link
but like all wikipedia stuff you need to double check it with other sources.
That said, I have seen the the 13 day ``week'' of the Aztecs and Mayans
discussed elsewhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week
In the Hebrew text it seems the seven day week is enforced during Israel's
time in between leaving Egypt and arriving in the promised land 40 years
later.
I don't recall any evidence to suggest we should understand a week to
be anything other than 7 days.
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