Re: Origin of Sabbath, Canaanite seasonal festivals, and nomads’ spring sacrifice

On 12 May, 05:02, Matt Giwer <jul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dom wrote:
In ["The History of Ancient Israel," Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York
(1984)] Michael Grant makes the following claims:
The Sabbath “custom seems to derive from a day set apart by the
Babylonians and Canaanites, in connexion with their cult of the
moon.” [p. 59]
“The Israelites took over, after their fashion, the three great
annual, seasonal festivals of the Canaanites: Unleavened (unfermented)
Bread (Massoth), when springtime brought the winter rains to an end,
‘and the sickle was first put to the standing corn’; Weeks or
Pentecost (Sharouth) in the early summer (‘with the first fruits of
your sowing’); and Ingathering in the autumn (‘when you bring in the
fruits of your work on the land’). [pp. 62-63]
“Alone, perhaps, among the major festivals of the Israelite religious
year, the Passover goes back to pre-Canaanite times—the nomads’ spring
sacrifice of a young animal to bring fecundity to the flock.” [p. 63]
I would appreciate more information about the Babylonians’ and
Canaanites’ cult of the moon (was it related to the four phases of the
moon?), about the seasonal festivals of the Canaanites, and about the
nomads’ spring sacrifice.

There were no Canaanites. That is a bible name which corresponds to no known
people in the most dug place in the world.

Matt has a VERY short memory, methinks.... This is what I posted
earlier:

"Kinahhu? I guess you've NEVER head of that word. That is what it is
in
Akkadian, and it is Ka-na-na in Egyptian.The Ebla texts have the
ethnic name ga-na-na. Really, if you want to debate this issue, TRY
and do a little reading."

[rest snipped]

Dragonblaze
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