Nundinal Cycle and the Sabbath

[Onasander]

This had to of come up in ancient times. How do you fit a sabbath observed on a 7 day week when the Roman's used a 8 day week? One day was a market day, so you pretty much had to get out to shop on those days, cause markets in those times didn't work around your schedule, you worked to the merchants willingness to show up.

 

[Wandering Monk]

This had to of come up in ancient times. How do you fit a sabbath observed on a 7 day week when the Roman's used a 8 day week? One day was a market day, so you pretty much had to get out to shop on those days, cause markets in those times didn't work around your schedule, you worked to the merchants willingness to show up.

Presumably you are referring to Jewish observance of the Saturday Sabbath, because as I understand it, Christians were not prohibited from going to markets on Sundays.

 

[Onasander]

We had three groups in the republic to principate to consider. Jews, pagans who observed Jewish laws, and Christians, and many Christians still were not exiled from the synagogues yet and tried to follow the OT laws.

So this would of been a issue to all three groups.

 

[Onasander]

Hypsistarians - Wikipedia

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Decapolis - Wikipedia

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[Wandering Monk]

We had three groups in the republic to principate to consider. Jews, pagans who observed Jewish laws, and Christians, and many Christians still were not exiled from the synagogues yet and tried to follow the OT laws.

So this would of been a issue to all three groups.

So, you are suggesting that these three groups were keeping some form of Jewish observance regarding market days. If you read Avodah Zarah in the Mishnah, you will see that Jews had their own businesses in the Roman period. Particular attention to chapter 1.

Avodah Zarah - Wikipedia

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[Jayhawker Soule]

This had to of come up in ancient times. How do you fit a sabbath observed on a 7 day week when the Roman's used a 8 day week? One day was a market day, so you pretty much had to get out to shop on those days, cause markets in those times didn't work around your schedule, you worked to the merchants willingness to show up.

I fail to see the problem. The Jew would either be tolerated or jerked around irrespective of the week observed.

 

[Onasander]

(Saw this summary in Chapter 2- never vacation in Israel with a pregnant wife)

This chapter also deals with the prohibition against a Jew helping to deliver or nurse a gentile child, so as to not bring an idol-worshiper into the world. This prohibition can be eased in cases where refusal would cause enmity towards Jews, unless an excuse to refuse can be made.

 

[Wandering Monk]

(Saw this summary in Chapter 2- never vacation in Israel with a pregnant wife)

This chapter also deals with the prohibition against a Jew helping to deliver or nurse a gentile child, so as to not bring an idol-worshiper into the world. This prohibition can be eased in cases where refusal would cause enmity towards Jews, unless an excuse to refuse can be made.

This is off-topic. The OP was about weeks and markets.

 

[Onasander]

The morality of the book (you quoted chapter 1, I saw immediately after chapter 2) is in question, thus the authenticity of the text as something derived from God. Is there a better, humane source?

 

[Wandering Monk]

The morality of the book (you quoted chapter 1, I saw immediately after chapter 2) is in question, thus the authenticity of the text as something derived from God. Is there a better, humane source?

Oh, I didn't realize we were only allowed to cite passages from 'God derived' texts, whatever they are. Historical references aren't good enough.

 

[Onasander]

I'm not trying to antagonize you.

 

[Wandering Monk]

I'm not trying to antagonize you.

The morality of the Mishnah is in question, but not the morality of the sacred texts? I wish you had made it clear in the OP that you only wanted an answer from sacred texts. There are none. I wouldn't have wasted my time on this thread had I known you were limiting sources.

 

[Onasander]

Thank you.