Re: Bibliography
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 28, 1999, 6:06 |
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Steg Belsky scripsit:
> As far as i know, isn't Pentecost the English name for the Jewish holiday
> of Shavu`ot?
> What would be so weird about Easter and Shavu`ot (which happens to be 2
> days outside of Israel) falling out on the same day? They do go by
> different calendars, afterall...
No, Pentecost commemorates an event described in the New Testament,
and always falls (as the name indicates) 50 days after Easter.
> Although Easter always seems to come out around Pesahh...
No accident: the Last Supper was a seder of sorts, though not a formal
one. But technically Easter is the first Sunday after the first
full moon after the vernal equinox, although the "moon" in question
is not the physical moon but a virtual moon that orbits in precisely
29.5 days...
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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