22:41 A: About a stone’s throw.
Similar distance measurements are found in Gen 21:16: הרחק כמטחוי קשת
= “at the distance of a bowshot”; LXX: ὡσεὶ τόξου βολήν. ‖ Babylonian Talmud
Qiddušin 33A (in the mouth of Abbayye [† 338/39]): מְלֹא עֵינָיו = “filling of
his eyes,” that is, as far as you can see. (Hermann L. Strack and Paul
Billerbeck, A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash,
ed. Jacob N. Cerone, 4 vols. [trans. Andrew Bowden and Joseph Longarino;
Bellingham, Wash.: Lexham Press, 2022], 2:302)
My friends in the
USA can be pleased to know that it is not just Americans who take the “anything
but the metric system” approach to measurements 😉
