The first section—four chapters—of Paul Bradshaw and Maxwell Johnson’s book, The Origins of Feasts, Fasts and Seasons in Early Christianity,[1] is called “Sabbath and Sunday.” They begin by pointing out that it is all too easy to presume that the only three possible references to a weekly assembly on Sunday may well not have been on Sunday. If you are a Jewish Christian in Galatia in the year 54 or 55—the years most scholars now assign to its writing[2]—the first day of the week starts when night falls on Saturday.
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