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How about the prophets? You know... "This is the Word of the Lord that came to the prophet such-and-such during the reign of king whats-is-name."

Yes, I do that. Well... I'm not a KJO guy. I do like and use the KJV, mostly because that's what they made us memorize growing up. I like the ESV and RSV. Good Bibles. But the NIV?!? I'm pretty sure it stands for Nearly Inspired Version.

I almost mentioned that in my last post, but decided against it because (a) Rome doesn't really come into its own until the Iron Age is over, and (b) most of the people living under Roman rule still used the 7-day week. I believe even Rome itself eventually abandoned their nindunal cycle in...

Almost always seven. Most calendars during the Bronze and Iron Age were lunar-based. Since the lunar month is 28 days, it gets split into half-months (14 days) and weeks (7). Even non-lunar calendars still use the 7-day week. The Amorite calendar had 7 jubilees each year, where each...

Maybe that's the first time it shows up in the Bible, but from history and archaeology we know the whole Middle East was using a calendar of weeks and weeks of weeks as early as the 3rd millennium BC. Historians think the Amorites invented it, and it was adopted by the Canaanites and...