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  • #16
    The 8 day week idea had to come from somewhere ... Rome is the only place I know of that had one.


    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-day_week

    The ancient Etruscans developed an eight-day market week known as the nundinum around the 8th or 7th century BC. This was passed on to the Romans no later than the 6th century BC. As Rome expanded, it encountered the seven-day week and for a time attempted to include both. The popularity of the seven-day rhythm won and the eight-day week disappeared.
    The cycle of seven days, named after the sun, the moon, and the five planets visible to the naked eye, was already customary in the time of Justin Martyr, who wrote of the Christians meeting on the Day of the Sun (Sunday).[1]

    Emperor Constantine eventually established the seven-day week in the Roman calendar in AD 321

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    And yes, it looks like the idea of an eight day week might have come from the Roman calendar at that:
    Source: https://www.worldslastchance.com/yahuwahs-calendar/8-days-a-week-julian-calendar-history.html

    Sunday cannot be the day on which Yahushua arose from the dead, because Sunday did not exist in the eight-day Julian week of His day. Furthermore, Saturday cannot be the true Scriptural Sabbath because the seven-day planetary week originally began on Saturn’s day!

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    • #17
      Originally posted by tabibito View Post
      The 8 day week idea had to come from somewhere ... Rome is the only place I know of that had one.

      The ancient Etruscans developed an eight-day market week known as the nundinum around the 8th or 7th century BC. This was passed on to the Romans no later than the 6th century BC. As Rome expanded, it encountered the seven-day week and for a time attempted to include both. The popularity of the seven-day rhythm won and the eight-day week disappeared.

      Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-day_week

      The cycle of seven days, named after the sun, the moon, and the five planets visible to the naked eye, was already customary in the time of Justin Martyr, who wrote of the Christians meeting on the Day of the Sun (Sunday).[1]

      Emperor Constantine eventually established the seven-day week in the Roman calendar in AD 321

      © Copyright Original Source


      And yes, it looks like the idea of an eight day week might have come from the Roman calendar at that:
      Source: https://www.worldslastchance.com/yahuwahs-calendar/8-days-a-week-julian-calendar-history.html

      Sunday cannot be the day on which Yahushua arose from the dead, because Sunday did not exist in the eight-day Julian week of His day. Furthermore, Saturday cannot be the true Scriptural Sabbath because the seven-day planetary week originally began on Saturn’s day!

      © Copyright Original Source


      Wiki's the best you've got? From what I can gather (from online dictionaries and such), the nundinum originated in Rome, and was simply the nine-day period from one market day to the next. It seems to have been rather less formal than the Jewish week.
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      • #18
        Originally posted by tabibito View Post
        The 8 day week idea had to come from somewhere
        From the Beatles?
        When I Survey....

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        • #19
          I cited the Wiki simply because the relevant section was not in error.

          The Romans gradually replaced their 8 day week (the imperial nundinal cycle) with a 7 day week over a course of a century, after Julius Caesar's calendar reform in 46 BC. Their reasons for doing so are unclear, however we do know that the two cycles co-existed for quite some time. Ultimately, the nundinal cycle fell in disuse and the 7 day cycle prevailed. (Stack Exchange)

          Whatever the case, the Ancient Romans, during the Republic, did not use a seven day week, but rather went with eight days. One “eighth day” of every week was set aside as a shopping day where people would buy and sell things, particularly buying food supplies for the following week. (Todayifoundout.com) - this one I'm leery of.

          It is important to remember that the Biblical week as an individual unit of time defined in Genesis 1, consisted of only seven days: six working days followed by a Sabbath rest on the last day of the week. The eight-day cycle of the Julian calendar was in use at the time of Christ. However, the Israelites would not have kept the seventh-day Sabbath on the eight-day weekly cycle of the Julian calendar. This would have been idolatry to them. Even when the Julian week shortened to seven days, it still did not conform to the weekly cycle of the Biblical week nor did it resemble the modern week in use today. (hope-of-israel.org/weeklycycle.html)

          In ancient Rome, markets were held at eight-day intervals; because of the Roman method of inclusive numeration, the market day was denoted nundinae (“ninth-day”) and the eight-day week an inter nundium. (https://www.britannica.com/science/calendar)
          1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
          .
          ⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛
          Scripture before Tradition:
          but that won't prevent others from
          taking it upon themselves to deprive you
          of the right to call yourself Christian.

          ⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛⊛

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          • #20
            An interesting article as to origin of our 7 day week. Of course it denies Jewish creation account. Yet the 7 day week stands in evidence. Oh, there are the 7 naked eye celestial objects, the Sun, Moon, Mars (Norse god Tyr), Mercury ( Wodan [Odin]), Jupiter ( Norse god Thor), Venus (Norse goddess Frigg), and Saturn.

            http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1939PA.....47..175C
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            . . . that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: . . . -- 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 KJV

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