In a message dated 2/1/2005 10:18:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu> writes:
>In his commentary on Genesis, Calvin notes that references to the moon as "the lesser light" are not entirely accurate--that Saturn (for example) is larger than the moon, but that it wasn't Moses' intent to teach astronomy.
ted
The moon god Sin was a mesopotamian semitic god. Post biblical Jewish literature has a story in which Abraham considers worshiping first the sun and then the moon but abandons both.
Nabonidus, last Babylonian king, tried to rebuild the ancient temple of the moon god Sin at Haraan (where the patriarchs went for wives). The effects of the moon on the earth are far greater than those of Saturn. The Hebrews got the lunar cycle (the names of the months) from the Babylonian captivity.
The sun, the moon and Venus appear on kassite kudurrus, (akin to the tablets of the Ten commandments).
rich
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