> "Anton Sherwood" <bro### [at] poboxcom> wrote :
> > I'm no Bible expert; the crucifixion is the only link I know between the
> > ancient Jewish week and the modern week.  If the crucifixion was the day
> > before "the day of rest", then the resurrection must be the day after.

Bill DeWitt wrote:
>     "On the third day he rose again", so could be the day after the day
> after... depends on if you count the day he was buried as the first day
> or not.

Zero-based indexing is rare in the ancient world; that bit, at least, is
uncontroversial: the cross-raising was day 1 (Friday), the resurrection
day 3 (Sunday).


>     But standard calendars have the week ends in their proper places,
> at both ends of the week. The week starts at one end on Sunday and goes
> through the other end which is Saturday.

American standard, yes, but evidently not Eurostandard.

-- 
Anton Sherwood  --  http://www.ogre.nu/ (online again, Nov.19)

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