You raise an interesting question concerning if at one time, the days of the week started over at the beginning of the new moon. If they ever counted them like that, which I highly doubt, it would have been pre Babylonian, IMO. Again, I doubt they ever did. The sequence of days goes back for millennia.
The day has always ended and the next day began at sundown. It's probably related to the first new moon (i.e., it must be dark to see a new moon sliver with such low illumination). Everything is based around the sighting of the new moon - therefore the need to start a new day.
Rood's creator's calendar has about 4 hours devoted to this topic. In the presentation along with Rood is a Karite Jew who belongs to a Jewish organization working to replace the currently used Jewish Calendar with the original corrected Biblical calendar.
I have a copy of Rood's calendar and use it all the time when studying signs in the heavens, prophecies, special dates and etc. I posted info on the four blood moons and how they would happen on Jewish high Sabbath feast days here on FR over a year ago, way before it made it into the national news and several books.
The "Jonah Code" made offer an idea on your three days in the tomb theory you mentioned, though I don't remember. During the Passover week when Yeshua was crucified, there were two Sabbaths. See the timeline below:
Scripture tells us in Genesis 1:14 that the sun and moon were used for signs, and moeds(our english bibles say seasons- you and I think of spring, summer, fall, winter , but the Hebrew word ‘moed’ (H#4150) means tent of meeting, appointed times, solemn feasts, congregation) and for days and years.
Our English is almost a criminally poor translation..
And in Exodus 12, YHWH is instructing Moses on the the month...
I saw that New Moon is the same word in Hebrew as Month in my concordance, hodesh, and that word search in Scripture is an interesting study because the concordance shows it a lot (#2320)
Scripture says that , 2. This new moon (month) shall be to you the beginning of new moons (month). It shall be the first new moon(month) of(belongs to) the year to you.
Lunar months don’t determine solar years.
And when reading it, the question is does it say beginning of year or the 1st month of the year?
The sun (with the equinox) provides the new year and the new moon would then have to belong to the year.(after the equinox)
I thought last passover that the entire Jewish world was a month late ( they were complaining here that Thanksgiving was going to interupt their feasts, if that made any news where you live it- it did me...) and had they read Exodus, it would not have been overlapped at thanksgiving..
God gave Moses ( and all of us) a way to find a year and a month and a day, etc, with His Creation just as Genesis says. Some use just the sun and they are wrong... some use just the moon and they are wrong..
God gave us both and both are vital for finding his moeds- H#4150( tent of meeting, appointed times, solemn feasts, etc...)
Again, our English poor translation of ‘seasons’ in Genesis 1:14, which we assume means spring, summer, fall, winter..
Without a concordance and these word studies, not sure if the scales can come off of believer’s eyes to see....people who don’t believe are gonna follow the world and its systems blindly anyway..
I shouldn’t know this stuff! ... But I have acted completely by faith for two years and these are some of the blessings that come from rejecting the world and its systems, and trusting and following Him.
All this is life altering. And unlearning what the world taught me ( and all us) places a new value on walking in light of His word and His truth and not stumbling in the world’s darkness..
The more I learn from Him, the more I learn about this world..
And there is no church denomination that is teaching me any of this..no pastor or preacher or priest shepherding me.. I am learning from the Master Himself. And I am a slow, and I pray, a continually humble learner..
The toughest and not popular part of God’s calendar is that there is no ( see gregorian calendar 2014)Jan 1st, or Feb 2nd, or Feb 14th, or Feb 17th, or March 5th, or March 17th, or April 1st, or April 13th, or April 18th, or April 20th, or April 22nd, or May 5th, or May 11th, or May 17th, or May 26th, or June 14th, or June 15th, or July 4th, or September 1st, or September 7th, or October 13th, or October 24th, or October 31st, or November 11th, or November 27th, or December 7th, or December 24th and 25th, or December 31st..
Most believers recognize those dates and those man made holy days (holidays)
The secular humanists have their secular calendar and most of the Bible believing world uses it too because we really were taught it from an early age by well meaning believers or secular humanists...
Some of those believers have an opinion on who/what the beast or beast power is..there are few things that unify the world of politics, secularism and religions like the secular calender...everybody has days that are ‘theirs’ in the calendar... my thought is I want to come out of that as much as is physically and spiritualy possible.
All my heart, all my soul and all my mind is needed for His calendar.. it isn’t what the world observes. And it is a constant reminder I am in this world, not of it. Nothing does it better than seeing His calendar next to the world’s calendar.. puts things in perspective for me..