Re: [asa] yom (was truth with love award)

Don't have an answer to your question, but I recall a comment that the
seventh day is different because it is without the evening-morning of the
six days. This suggests a basis for the interpretation in Hebrews. But
this clearly does not apply to the passage in Exodus.

I am right now too lazy to try to look it all up, but my recollection is
that the evening-morning sequence is only found additionally in Daniel.
There are plenty of references to morning-evening or
morning-noon-evening..
Dave

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:23:46 -0600 (MDT) gordon brown
<gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu> writes:
> Does yom ever have to mean 24 hours as opposed to the period from
> one
> sunset to the next (which when averaged over a year averages to 24
> hours
> in the tropics and temperate zones)? (My understanding of Joshua
> 10:13 is
> different from the popular one.)
>
> Exodus 20:8-11 makes the week of the Jewish calendar a commemoration
> of
> God's creating work and rest in Genesis 1:1 to 2:3, but the days of
> the
> Jewish calendar are sunset to sunset, which is an impossible
> interpretation of some of the days in Genesis. Also Hebrews 4 bases
> its argument on the assumption that the seventh day never ended.
> Earthly
> memorials are not exact copies of the heavenly realities that they
> commemorate. (Hebrews 8:5 and 10:1)
>
> Gordon Brown
> Department of Mathematics
> University of Colorado
> Boulder, CO 80309-0395
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Don Nield wrote:
>
> > Merv:
> > Yes, it is the same Hebrew word "yom". And this is where the
> argument
> > begins. It my contention (and that of scholars such as James Barr)
> that
> > in Biblical interpetation one is not at liberty to employ the
> full
> > semantic range of a Hebrew word. Rather, the word has to be
> understood
> > in context. And in the context of Genesis 1 the word "yom"
> signifies a
> > 24 hour day. But the meaning of yom in Genesis becomes
> unimportnat if
> > one is prepared to recognize that Genesis 1 is a polemic against
> foreign
> > gods rather than science or history in the modern sense.
> > Don
> >
> > Mervin Bitikofer wrote:
> >
> > > I forgot to reply to this before -- but these examples both
> seem
> > > excellent. And just for extra clarity and "point-driving
> punch"
> > > can any of you who may be Hebrew scholars confirm whether or not
> the
> > > word for "day" used in "in the day of thine eating of it" is
> the same
> > > Hebrew word used previously in the Genesis 1 account?
> >
> >
> >
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