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[avram]

You know the Bible 87%!

 

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

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I'd have done better if there'd been fewer New Testament questions.

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[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

Technically, you're right. But Christians are taught that Jesus rose "on the 3rd day," counting the crucifixion as day 1.

98% here.

[avram]

Yes, which is why they should have used the traditional phrasing, like "On which day did Jesus rise?". That would have been fine. But to say that Jesus rose "after" three days is just wrong.

[jonbaker.livejournal.com]

Rabbinic Judaism since antiquity has used similar expressions for passage of time. E.g., say you have two changes of king in one year. King One rules from January to February, King Two rules from February to November, King Three rules from November onwards. The same year is Year One for King One, Year One for King Two, and Year One for King Three. The next January (actually Tishrei, but why confuse everyone) starts Year Two for King Three, even though chronologically, he's still in his first year of reign.

Similarly, shiva, which is 7 days starting from the funeral, is not 168 hours. The day of the funeral is Day One, say, Tuesday at noon. Shiva starts then. So the shiva is over the following Monday, in the morning, because "part of the day is like a whole day". The shiva may only have lasted 140 hours, but it's into the seventh day, counting from the first, not the zeroth, day.

I don't know when the concept of zero started, but it certainly was after rabbinic (late Roman) antiquity.

P.S. I got 100%. The NT questions were pretty easy, and/or guessable by eliminating one or more alternatives.