Re: CHAT: Passover

Nik Taylor asked:

> James Campbell wrote:
> > Passover almost always coincides with our (Jehovah's
> > Witnesses') Memorial celebration, i.e. the commemoration of the Lord's
> > Evening Meal and Memorial of Christ's Death, since the date's worked out
on
> > the basis of the old Jewish religious calendar, IIRC.
>
> Question: Do you use the current Jewish calendar, or based on the
> Catholic/Protestant Easter, or based on actual sighting of the
> full-moon?
It's the old Jewish calendar, I think, as would have been used in the first
century. I seem to recall that it's not calculated quite the same way in the
current Jewish calendar, something to do with which years got the extra
month. I can't check right now as I've been moving house today and I'm not
in the same place as my references. Perhaps someone could confirm this, but
IIRC Veadar was added to 7 years every 19 (I think), depending on when a
certain full moon was seen, but in more recent times that was regularized to
something like years 3,5,8,etc in every cycle. Or I could be remembering
very badly. I have a good forgettory.

Anyway, as a result we can differ in our celebration date from the generally
recognized Passover date by a whole month, once in a while. This year it was
the same though.

James

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