Talk:Dura Parchment 24

Misrepresentation of Kraeling's Text
I don't have time to go through and fix it but the wikipedia article badly misrepresents Kraeling's reconstruction of the text (pg 12-13 of Kraeling). Furthermore, the subsequent reconstruction of Parker/Goodacre/Taylor is the most commonly used "edition" of the text (see Crawford and Watson's recent publications) but is unrepresented in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.109.96.146 (talk) 17:18, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Curious significance of the text
It seems that the author of this fragment are making a point that Joseph of Arimathea, in a particular state of mind even, when the light of the early dawn is coming, it is still Pareskeyn. The author identifies Pareskeyn as Prosabbathon, and that Sabbath comes in the morning, at dawn. The word identified and translated as dawn here are clearly descriptive of 'a coming of light', ἐπέϕωσκεν. This is curious, since Jewish tradition today hold Sabbath to begin at dusk. This story confirms, or at least isn't in conflict with the four canonical gospels, on that Joseph of Arimathea takes Jesus' body and burries him before Sabbath. It is thus evident that these christians (of Dura-Europos) hold that, not only them, but even that Jews of the time of the cruxifiction of Jesus, see Sabbath as beginning at dawn, not dusk. It cannot be a mere later interpolation, in that it is of importance, apparantly, that the crucified person must be taken off the cross before Sabbath. It is actually quite a huge twist that early Christians hold it as a Jewish tradition that Sabbath begins at daybreak, in the morning. I'm not stating here anything about what actually happened on that day of Preparation, Pareskeyn, merely that it is evident that some christians about the time of the writing of this parchment, actually believe that it was Jewish tradition to see Sabbath beginning at dawn. Which is amazing. My mind may be diluted, so please correct me if my reasoning are erring. --Xact (talk) 15:22, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

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