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Good Wednesday or Good Friday?
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Shlama Paul!

I really enjoyed your post. Right now Aramaic has the focus when I have time to study language (and Hebrew comes next), so I have no idea if I will ever get around to studying Akkadian. Still whenever I run into a bit of it, I really do find fascinating how much it has in common with Hebrew, Ugaritic, Ge'ez, etc... but I guess that's just how language families are. I see the same things when fiddling around between Avestan, Hindi, Greek and Latin. Confusedhrug: I very dearly wish I had time and money to do more than dabble. I did manage to find a cheap enough tutor for Aramaic (cheap is important in my situation), but he is very busy with his family life and I would like to learn more & faster.

I appreciate the humility in your message, but I hope you will forgive me for still perceiving the sunset tradition as a good and blessed thing. Starting the day at Midnight is now the practice of nearly the entire world, but many people assimilated into this newer way find they have multiplied the number of Scriptural passages they have trouble understanding. Just as you say, ending and beginning each day at sunset is a fundamental part of early Mesopotamian and Hebraic culture... beyond, even. Like myriads of other cultural features, this basic understanding is assumed by the literature writers of those peoples, and lacking those basic assumptions will cloud any passage when the meaning is dependent upon their presence. As believers in the holiness and relevance of Tanakh and Peshitta, much like believers in the other Bible versions the world over, we have a strong interest in reading our sacred texts as accurately as possible and having them taught likewise. Certainly by itself this "sunset rule" is certainly not going to be the unraveling of anyone's salvation. Nevertheless I hope we can agree that ignorance of fundamentals is a vulnerability when reading such writings, and that in such cases it is better to be knowledgeable.

In any case the tangent has perhaps been a little too well-explored... I simply didn't want to miss an opportunity to encourage. I agree that it's not exactly an "apostolic thing", but later perhaps I will explain what I meant there.

Wishing you well,

-Raymond
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Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-23-2010, 03:19 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by judge - 07-25-2010, 10:21 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-25-2010, 11:57 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by noordos - 07-26-2010, 10:25 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-27-2010, 12:00 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by distazo - 07-28-2010, 08:23 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-28-2010, 09:05 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by distazo - 07-29-2010, 06:57 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-29-2010, 02:33 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-29-2010, 07:07 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by noordos - 07-31-2010, 12:13 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-31-2010, 04:23 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by ograabe - 08-05-2010, 03:13 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 08-05-2010, 04:07 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 08-19-2010, 02:21 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by noordos - 08-19-2010, 10:46 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 08-20-2010, 03:27 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by noordos - 08-20-2010, 11:02 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 08-21-2010, 02:24 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-01-2011, 06:53 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 05-01-2011, 08:49 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-01-2011, 09:37 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 05-01-2011, 03:19 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 05-02-2011, 04:22 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-02-2011, 10:53 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 05-03-2011, 01:22 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-03-2011, 08:45 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-08-2011, 05:20 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-08-2011, 05:29 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 05-08-2011, 05:54 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-08-2011, 10:39 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-08-2011, 10:44 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 05-09-2011, 04:44 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-09-2011, 10:24 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-09-2011, 10:33 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 05-09-2011, 02:17 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-09-2011, 03:33 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-10-2011, 02:39 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 05-10-2011, 03:00 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-10-2011, 04:59 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by borota - 05-10-2011, 10:58 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by borota - 05-10-2011, 11:29 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-10-2011, 11:31 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-10-2011, 11:39 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 05-10-2011, 12:44 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by borota - 05-10-2011, 12:46 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by borota - 05-10-2011, 01:32 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by borota - 05-10-2011, 06:54 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 05-10-2011, 07:16 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-10-2011, 10:27 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-10-2011, 10:29 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by borota - 05-11-2011, 12:32 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-11-2011, 01:01 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-11-2011, 05:32 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-11-2011, 09:56 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-11-2011, 09:59 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-11-2011, 01:58 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-12-2011, 12:09 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-17-2011, 07:06 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-17-2011, 11:21 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-18-2011, 05:19 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-26-2011, 10:28 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-27-2011, 12:16 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-27-2011, 05:11 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-27-2011, 06:22 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 05-29-2011, 03:15 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Daniel814 - 05-29-2011, 04:55 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 05-31-2011, 07:17 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 06-06-2011, 10:11 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 06-07-2011, 06:27 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-20-2011, 04:06 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 07-20-2011, 04:32 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 07-20-2011, 12:26 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 07-20-2011, 01:00 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 07-20-2011, 01:25 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 07-20-2011, 07:41 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by bar Sinko - 07-20-2011, 08:46 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by borota - 07-20-2011, 10:54 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-21-2011, 03:57 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 07-21-2011, 04:08 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-21-2011, 03:09 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-21-2011, 05:45 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 07-22-2011, 12:11 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Dani - 07-22-2011, 09:58 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 07-22-2011, 06:41 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-22-2011, 11:06 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by rramlow - 07-23-2011, 05:09 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-23-2011, 05:28 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-23-2011, 07:21 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-24-2011, 05:15 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-25-2011, 02:22 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-25-2011, 02:43 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-25-2011, 02:56 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-25-2011, 03:13 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-25-2011, 03:20 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-25-2011, 05:34 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-25-2011, 05:38 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-25-2011, 06:24 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-25-2011, 06:47 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-25-2011, 07:22 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-25-2011, 08:44 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-25-2011, 05:24 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-25-2011, 06:17 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by konway87 - 07-25-2011, 06:26 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-25-2011, 08:24 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-25-2011, 08:48 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Alan G77 - 07-26-2011, 09:22 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 07-26-2011, 05:47 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Sarah - 02-18-2013, 03:03 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Sarah - 03-02-2013, 03:04 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Thirdwoe - 03-02-2013, 07:52 AM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by Sarah - 03-28-2013, 01:40 PM
Re: Good Wednesday or Good Friday? - by ClaudeA - 05-15-2013, 12:42 AM

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