05-27-2012, 01:15 PM
Thirdwoe Wrote::
I was reading Victor Alexander's translation work online the other day and came across this, where there is a huge contradiction in the translated verses...and I'm wondering how this could be justifed. I'm talking to Victor about this in email, but so far he maintains that the translation is accurate for each Aramaic word translated...but how could this be so, as it would totally make the NT cotradict itself in these parallel verses...???
Luke 24:1 "On Sunday, however, at dawn, while it was still dark, they came to the tomb and brought the spices that they had consecrated, and there came with them other women."
John 20:1 "But on Sunday, there came Mary Magdalene at dawn, while it was still dark, to the burial place."
Mathew 28:1 "Then in the evening of the week when Sunday was coming to an end, there came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, to see the tomb.
Mark 16:1-2 "1. And as the Sabbath ended, Mary Magdalene and Mary of James and Salome, bought spices to come and anoint him. At dusk, however, on Sunday, they came to the tombs, as the sun had set.
See what I mean? Something's fishy here.
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Shlama Akhi Chuck:
The "evening of the week" is called havdallah by the lunar calendar, Saturday evening, during twilight ended the Shabbat. Some count three stars in the evening to divide the days. In Genesis the days are divided as evening first and then morning and this is how the Jews have always celebrated the end of Shabbat from the First of the week, which is Sunday.
"and there was evening and there was morning the First Day".
No Jews did any work till after Havdallah. Victor Alexander has confused the two calendars. The Lunar Calendar marks the festivals beginning and end, including the weekly Sabbaths. It's a simple error made by Western Christians. Just follow the Lunar Calendar, and you can't go wrong.
A brief chronology of the watches.
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Shlama,
Stephen