This is going to be a hard question. Decades ago, there was an article in JUDAISM Magazine which argued that the Biblical idea of time changed early on in b'reshit. At first, a "year" was the time which spanned one dry season and one rainy season. For this reasons, the life spans of Jews up to that point were twice what we would expect today. Start with parashah Chayye Sarah Gen 23:1
At some point, this switched to a quasi-solar year. The problem is that we no longer have that subscription. Ran out of space and donated that and hundreds of books to a small college in Kentucky. I therefore have neither title nor author. All searches I could dream up have failed. Can you help? ___________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & Eng. 1520 Sherwood Ave., East Lansing MI 48823-1885 Ph. 517.337.1545 FAX 517.337.1665 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://www.cse.msu.edu/%7Eweinshan> http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan Anybody who is not paranoid about PHISHing is crazy.
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