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Re: Bibliography

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, March 28, 1999, 6:06
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... -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.