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Recent content by Mockingbird0

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    Palm Sunday has passed, next is Easter Sunday and Holy Week with the Easter Triduum.

    As other have noted "Easter" is a name which English Christians applied to the paschal feast beginning in the 7th century AD. If the name bothers you, don't use it. The earliest mention of a colored Easter egg that I can find in England is in the year 1290. The custom probably is derived from...
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    Does anyone here follow the Karaite calendar?

    In this respect your Enoch calendar resembles the Western Christian liturgical calendar, which always begins on the Sunday closest to November 30, and has 364 days most years, 371 days in other years.
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    Does anyone here follow the Karaite calendar?

    Thanks for that information!
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    Why does the Bible say that we should not eat shell fish

    I disagree. It took several more centuries for the Rabbis to stabilize their authority over Jewish communities in Asia Minor and Europe--incompletely as you note with the example of the Karaites. At the time of the Council of Nicea most Jewish folk in the Mediterranean world were not under...
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    Does anyone here follow the Karaite calendar?

    So if the spring equinox is on a Wednesday, as it will be in 2030, is that day, or the following Wednesday ("fourth day" in your terminology) the new-year day?
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    Does anyone here follow the Karaite calendar?

    You are the one who said that the new year in the Enoch calendar starts on the Wednesday after (on or after?) the spring equinox. By your own table of equinoxes this makes the Enochian new year in 2024 to be March 20, 2024 and the Enochian new year in 2025 to be March 26 2025. How many days...
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    Pagan Holidays

    Your AI cites no sources.
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    Does anyone here follow the Karaite calendar?

    So what? From March 20 2024 to March 18 2025 inclusive are 364 days. March 19 2025 is the 365th day, March 20 2025 is the 366th day and so on to the 371st day on March 25 2025.
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    Why does the Bible say that we should not eat shell fish

    The Chabad.org article does not say that Akiva "introduced" intercalation rules. In any case, that article is full of mythology that is not to be taken seriously, for example the statement that "Hillel II" implemented the modern-day Rabbinic calendar in all its details in AD 359. The...
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    Why does the Bible say that we should not eat shell fish

    Yes it does. I quoted the part of your post that I responded to. It contained the assertions that 1) The decision of the Council of Nicea about Easter was a response to Rabbinic changes in the Jewish calendar 2) Christ rose from the dead on Sunday the 14th of Nisan in 33 AD which corresponded...
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    Why does the Bible say that we should not eat shell fish

    The Gospel of John states that Jesus was crucified on the 14th of Nisan (John 18.28) and rose on the 16th. The synoptic Gospels state that Jesus was crucified on the 15th of Nisan (since he ate the Passover with his disciples the night before) and rose on the 17th. No Gospel states that he...
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    Does anyone here follow the Karaite calendar?

    According to your information, a new year began on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. The next year's new year began on Wednesday March 26, 2025. From March 20, 2024 to March 25, 2025 inclusive are 371 days.
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    Pagan Holidays

    Jesus and the early Christians used the calendar that was regulated by the priests in the Temple. The Pharisees and Saducees are not known to have used different calendars. Please cite Josephus or Philo if you know of any passages in their works that imply otherwise.
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    Pagan Holidays

    This is wrong. Perhaps you meant "precede the Rabbinic Feast of Unleavened Bread"? This happens in 3 years out of every 19, when the Rabbinic calendar sets Unleavened Bread to the second, not the first, full moon after the spring equinox.
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    Pagan Holidays

    Constantine's language is quite different from Peter's. Peter accuses the generation whose leaders delivered Jesus to Pilate, and acknowleges ("lawless men") that the Romans killed Jesus. Constantine accuses the Jewish folk of his own generation, who had nothing to do with handing Jesus over...