sabbatical cycle
time measurement
Also known as: seven-year cycle
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ancient Middle Eastern religions
- In Middle Eastern religion: Nature: the framework of ideas and practices
…system of cycles, notably the sabbatical, or seven-year, cycle. The sabbatical year was the seventh year, and the jubilee year followed seven sabbatical cycles. This was a pervasive system in the ancient Middle East. A Ugaritic liturgical text specially designed for this phenomenon aims at terminating a sabbatical cycle of…
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Judaism
- In prosbul
…at the end of the sabbatical year (every seventh year). The court assumed the obligation of collecting the debt, thus technically removing the personal element specified in the law: “every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother,…
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