Note 668 — Chapter VI · LUNAR CALENDARS AND THE WEEK
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The predominance of seven among the Hebrews, if not wholly explained by borrowing from Babylonia, may reasonably be assumed to have been much influenced by Babylonian conceptions. On the Hebrew cult of this number see Hehn, Siebenzahl und Sabbat, pp. 77-90; O. Zöckler, “Siebenzahl, heilige,” in Herzog, Plitt, and Hauck’s Realencyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche,³ xviii, 310-317.