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Originally Posted by rstrats
Aaron. W.,
I see that for some reason you still don't understand my request.
I understand your request. It's just that you're asking to be flown to the moon. That's just not going to happen.
In order for your request to be fulfilled:
1) There would have needed to have been a TON of writings. This is almost certainly not the case as the literacy rates were really, really low. This already limits the total volume of writing one would expect to even be able to find. Requesting something as specific as you are is already not a very probable event on this measure alone.
2) Culturally, the writing of precise predictions isn't something people would have done. People who could write were not often making predictions that are sufficiently precise to meet your requirements.
3) There's basically no way of verifying that a prediction was made and understood in the way you are desiring it to be. For example, let's say that there was a merchant that posted a sale in writing (which would never have happened). We would require this happened, AND that the merchant decided to either start or end the sale before sundown, AND that someone decided it was important to write this down as well, AND that you believed everything that was written.
Try to imagine what it would actually take for all of your criteria to be met. You're demanding detailed written evidence from an oral culture. Basically, you're just taking a stupid approach to the question, which is consequently making you to say stupid things.
If you had a more intelligent view, you would understand that the central importance of counting the days after birth from both a cultural and legal perspective is going to give you a clear sense of the measurement of the counting of the time of events. If just a few minutes can count as a day for the purposes of ritualized circumcision, then it's absolutely obvious that a few minutes can count as a day.
That you can't understand this isn't anyone's fault but yours.