“ We have further precise details respecting the sin-offering and the peace-offerings which were also presented. [1] This elaborate ceremonial connected with the wave-offering (developed in the post-exile period) took place on the morrow of the seventh Sabbath called a “day of holy convocation” on which no servile work was to be done. It was called a “fiftieth-day feast.” Pentecost or “Fiftieth” day is only a Greek equivalent of the last name (πεντηκοστή) in the Apocrypha and New Testament. ”

“ The Akitu festival to Marduk was a spring festival at the beginning of the Babylonian year (Nisan) . It therefore comes near in time to the feast of unleavened cakes rather than to the later harvest festival in the month Sivan called “feast of weeks.” Zimmern indeed connects the Akitu festival with that of Purim on the 15th Adar (March) ; see K A T3 p. 514 seq. Also the Roman Cerealia of April 12th–19th rather correspond to Maṣṣōth than to Ḳāṣīr. (O. C. W.) ”

“ Nobel (Comment. on Leviticus) and Kurtz agree with Hitzig’s premises but differ from his identification of the Sabbath. They identify it with the 14th Nisan. Accordingly the “day after” falls on the 15th. ”