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Mesopotamian Hemerology
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Texts assessing which days of a month suit particular actions, including warnings for some dates such as the seventh and fourteenth.
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Some Assyrian hemerologies give special judgments for days 7, 14, 19, 21 and 28. This does not amount to a permanent civil week in which everyone stops work. A caution may apply to a king or ritualRitualAn organised or distinguished practice meaningful to a community; it may leave traces, but its form alone does not reveal an associated doctrine.Glossary · Click to read the explanation specialist, not automatically to every household. Lists vary by text and period and must be distinguished from šapattu, a mid-month term. Day nineteen also prevents a simple reading as four equal weeks. [12][14]
References and notes
- Jacob L. Wright (2015), “How and When the Seventh Day Became Shabbat”; full essay Jacob L. Wright, 2015, part 2, main argument Return to the text ↑
- Ottilia Lukács (2020), publisher preview; chapter 1 pp. 6–11 only Ottilia Lukács, Sabbath in the Making (2020), preview pp. 6–11 of chapter 1 Return to the text ↑
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IL Archive, «Mesopotamian Hemerology», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/entities/mesopotamian-hemerology