Quoth Clive D.W. Feather on Wed, Oct 04, 2000:
Vadim Vygonets said:
In Hebrew, week days don't have names (except Sabbath). They're just numbered, so "First day of the week" means Sunday, no other interpretation possible. Now, these are Jewish weeks; it does not answer the question whether Christian weeks start on Sunday or Monday.
It does as far as I'm concerned.
How? Christian culture did not exist yet, so Luke used the wording which could be understood by the people who lived in the surrounding environment, i.e., Jews. And Romans, but I have no idea what kind of weeks Romans had, and what was the first day of the Roman week. Does anybody know when Christians changed their rest day from Saturday to Sunday? References from that time could help. The biggest question, of course, is whether it's Christian weeks we're discussing here...
Remember that when the New Testament was written Christianity did not exist as we know it, and Julian calendar was not invented yet (let alone Gregorian).
Caius Julius Caesar would have been surprised to hear that.
Boom. I erred again. My only hope is that Mr. Caesar doesn't read this list. But it was before Christians adopted Julian calendar. I always wondered which culture invented the concept of seven-day weeks. Vadik. -- Taunt not the sysadmin, for he can become you and make your life interesting.