Why is the Number 7 EVERYWHERE in Religion? | ReligionForBreakfast

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Support us on Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/religionforbreakfast The number seven appears everywhere in the Bible...and a bunch of religious

traditions too. Why is the number seven sacred?

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Arvid Kapelrud, 'The Number Seven in Ugaritic Texts,' Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 18 (Oct 1968), 494-499.
Denise Flanders, 'The Rhetorical Use of Numbers in the Deuteronomistic History,' 2022.
Denise Flanders, 'Saul has Killed His Thousands, David His Ten Thousands,' dissertation, 2019.
James Pritchard (ed.), 'Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament,' Third Edition with Supplement, 1969
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Botterweck et. all. (ed.), 'Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament,' Vol. 14.
Laki, 'On the Origin of the Sexagesimal Sytem,' Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol. 59, No 1/3 (Jan - March 1969).
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Adela Harbro Collins, 'Cosmology and eschatology in jewish and Christian Apocalypticism,' 1966.
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Leonid Zhmud, 'From Number Symbolism to Arithmology,' Zahlen- und Buchstabensysteme im Dienste religiöser Bildung. L. Schimmelpfennig (ed.).Tübingen: Seraphim, 2019. P. 25-45.

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00:00 Why so many 7s?
00:24 Near Eastern Context
5:03 Later Development of Sacred 7
5:59 Cross-cultural phenomenon?
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