Andrew:
> It is certainly much older, as are many of the elements of Genesis
> itself. Mesopotamian culture was an enormous standardising influence
> in all of the old world, and very early.
I'm not sure what book says "weeks are new concepts". Obviously, the
story of Genesis was built on the concept of a week and we know that
that book was written quite early. Before that, Sumerians had calendars
as well as Egyptians. It would be safe to say that wherever there is an
agricultural society, there are probably calendars. Yet, agricultural
societies were blossoming in the neolithic. How is the neolithic
'recent'? Perhaps to an archaeologist who normally studies dinosaur
bones. I think the calendar and the notion of 'week' is sufficiently
old to help explain '7' as a religious and agricultural term from the
neolithic.
= gLeN