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The Seven Day Week, Part 3

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Early Jewish Uses of Days of the Week

Promotion of sabbath observance in this period may have elicited the conceptualization of the week as a recurring sequence of seven numbered days. And may have percolated further on to the diaspira in egypt, as the papyri above mentioned possibly suggests. We don't know exactly what role these week days played in people's day to day lives early on. But another thing that's important to a mention is that the early jewish uses of days of the week identified a day not with a name, and certainly not with our names.

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