Andrew Usher wrote: > Brian M. Scott wrote: > >>>>> And the first day of the week is Sunday, not Monday - that >>>>> is an incontrovertible fact. >> >>>> Don't be ridiculous: it's merely a convention. For many of >>>> us Monday is unquestionably the first day of the week. >> >>> It's historically true. No one questioned it before modern times. >> >> Apparently you're not familiar with the Slavic and Baltic >> day-names. For that matter, Sunday is the first day in >> Jewish tradition for the same reason that Monday is the >> first day for many of us today. > > The Slavic and Baltic day names come from Greek tradition (itself > aberrant), not from Western tradition where it was always Sunday.
Where did you get that nonsense?
If you actually checked the Slavic/Baltic and Greek day names you'd find that they obviously do NOT follow the same tradition. Hey, what a surprise, Greek day names treat Sunday as the day number one!
pjk
> In addition, it's probably true that the astrological week came before > the Jews adopted it. > > Andrew Usher
