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Offline mwilson603

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Fancy a dinner date?
« on: April 18, 2011, 11:26:42 am »
Date proposed for the last supper
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13114124
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Re: Fancy a dinner date?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2011, 05:12:45 pm »
Except that the article misses the change from a lunar to a solar calendar. Mark and Luke are ambiguous as to the exact date, but Matthew has the Last Supper taking place in the evening before the Passover lambs were sacrificed. The Jews reckon the day from evening to evening, so the date was 15 Nisan, and it was the night of the first full moon after the vernal equinox. John changes the date of the Crucifixion, purely for theological reasons. The full moon can obviously occur on any day of the week, and since we don't know the year Jesus died, there's absolutely no way to pin it down to an exact date.
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Re: Fancy a dinner date?
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2011, 05:34:01 pm »
See, that's the sort of eloquent argument I expect from Robert.  Full of facts that not only put his argument across, but also enlighten more ignorant people like myself.
If I had to argue the idea of an exact date for the supposed last supper it would have been more like - "I can't remember the date I had my last birthday meal on and that was only a month ago, so I can't believe that anyone would be able to work out the date of the last supper from nearly 2,000 years ago!" :D
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