On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:28:27 +0100, Michael Roberts wrote:
>A mathematical comment on the common 6 + 1 literary devices . When you use
>maths to the base 60 !/1, !/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6 are integers giving
>60,30,20,15,12, 10 and this could give the 7 day week etc.
>If this is so then it means that "Moses/J/P " borrowed from non-judaistic
>Babylonian culture. Oh deary me.
>
>Longing to hear what false assumptions geologists have!! Except that we are
>all heathen
>
>Michael
Michael,
A quick afterthought on this. It struck me that Abraham was called out of
Ur of the Chaldees. If I remember rightly, the Babylonians are sometimes
called Chaldeans in the Bible. Was Ur in fact in Babylonia? If so, the 6+1
pattern may not so much have been borrowed but may have become
intrinsic to the Judaistic cuture as well, by virtue of Abraham's origins.
Or have I got some wires crossed somewhere?
Regards,
/Gary
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