Julia Neuffer

JULIA NEUFFER, Assistant Editor, SDA Bible Commentary

Articles by Julia Neuffer

How Long Is "Three Days"?

February 1949

It has been shown (in part 1) that a corn­' mon Biblical mode of counting was inclusive —that is, counting the first and last units of a series. For example, from the fourth to the sixth year of a king was reckoned…

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How Long Is "Three Days"?—No. 1

January 1949

A question of arithmetic arose in the classroom when a student thought he de­tected a mistake in the charts which were being given out. Why did the diagram of the fifty days between Passover and Pentecost place the wave sheaf on the first…

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A Bouquet for Mr. Jones

May 1956

The ordinary mortal wants security. He also wants certainty. It is painful to be told by an expert, in response to an in­quiry, "Your question cannot be answered com­pletely. We simply do not have enough facts…

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