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At 05:24 PM 10/24/97 GMT0BST, you wrote: >And 7 is the number of the days of the week (which are identified with the >names of planets i.e. Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jove, Venus, Saturn). >Commentaries on the Creation story in Genesis (Commentaries on the Hexaemeron) >were written by several theologians and the idea of 7 days also got taken over >into the genre of Universal Chronicles with their division into 7 ages or 6 >ages and Eternity. > >Julia Barrow > >And may I add the 7 ages of Man? For starters see J.A. Burrow, The Ages of Man A Study in Medieval Writing and Thought, and Elizabeth Sears, The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle. > >Aline Hornaday %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%