s a weekly festival; and there is an approach to a true
seven-day week.

[991] Alexander, _Short History of the Hawaiian People_.

[992] Details of the week are given in the article
"Calendar" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and
Ethics_, with references to authorities.

[993] Hollis, _The Nandi_, p. 79; Frazer, _Adonis Attis
Osiris_, pp. 370 ff., 375.

[994] See the noteworthy Yoruban rest day, the first day of
the five-day week (A. B. Ellis, _Yoruba_).

[995] For the literature on the sabbath see Herzog-Hauck,
_Real-Encyklopaedie_; Jastrow, in _American Journal of
Theology_ for 1898; Cheyne, _Encyclopaedia Biblica_;
Hastings, _Dictionary of the Bible_; _Jewish Encyclopedia_;
F. Bohn, _Der Sabbat im Alten Testament_; Benzinger,
_Hebraeische Archaeologie_; Nowack, _Hebraesche Archaeologie_;
C. H. Toy, "The Earliest Form of the Sabbath," in _Journal
of Biblical Literature_ for 1899 (in which, so far as
appears, the view that the Hebrew sabbath is a taboo day is
stated for the first time).

[996] Any taboo day might be the occasion of placative
ceremonies; but this is not a distinctive feature of the
day.

[997] T. G. Pinches, in _Proceedings of the Society of
Biblical Archaeology_, xxvi, 51 ff.; Zimmern, in _Zeitschrift
der deutschen morgenlaendischen Gesellschaft_, lviii, 199
ff., 458 ff.; J. Meinhold, _Sabbat und Woche im Alten
Testament_. There is no good reason to doubt that this
Babylonian term is formally identical with Hebrew _shabat_.

[998] 2 Kings iv, 23; Amos viii, 5; Isa. i, 13.

[999] Exod. xxiii, 6.

[1000] Deut. v, 12 ff.; Exod. xx, 8 ff.; the term 'holy'
here means set apart ritually, that is, taboo.

[1001] Ezek. xx, 12 f., 16, 20 f., 24; Isa. lviii, 13 f.;
cf. article "Sabbath" in _Jewish Encyclopedia_.

[1002] The Hebrew stem _shabat_ means 'to cease,' a
signification that accords well with the character of a
taboo day. But this sense has not been certainly found for
the Babylonian stem, and the original force of the term
_sabbath_ may be left undecided.

[1003] Exod. xxiii, 12.

[1004] Chabas, _Le calendrier des jours fastes et nefastes_;
Maspero, _Etudes egyptiennes_, i, 28 ff.; Wiedemann,
_Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_, chap. x.

[1005] IV Rawlinson, plates, 32 f.; Jastrow, _Religion of
Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 373 ff.

[1006] Hesiod, _Works and Days_, 763 ff.

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