Bible-era earthquake reveals year of Jesus' crucifixion

Discovery News ^ | May 24, 2012 | Jennifer Viegas

[NYFreeper]

Jesus, as described in the New Testament, was most likely crucified on Friday April 3, 33 A.D.

The latest investigation, reported in the journal International Geology Review, focused on earthquake activity at the Dead Sea, located 13 miles from Jerusalem. The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 27, mentions that an earthquake coincided with the crucifixion

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep. Oh there was a problem with the two number rather then four number year format in some computers but it was 80% hype even there.

"Oh the computer is going to think it is 1900 and planes weren't invented until after that so all the planes are going to crash!"

Really people? Computers don't think except in movies.

Yes I know about the chess playing computer but it is just calculating the move advantageous move from all the ones that have been programed into it. It is not actually thinking.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If such rather nonintuitive language wasn’t already used in Jewish religious tradition, I too would say nonsense.

But it is used. And that’s the culture in which Christianity and the early church had its start, and that’s why there’s no scandal about Good Friday being Good Friday and not Good Wednesday.

[null and void]

Yeah, we missed the second coming too...

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh good grief. “Think” is used of computers only figuratively. (The same could be said of “believe.”) Digital computers are designed and built to do things that are a lot like human reasoning, but with no attempt to imitate the larger capabilities of such reasoning. And even if such imitation were possible that would only be an imitation, and one that is under control of the operator. It would not have a soul.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh, and I did not grow up with Christianity. I came to it well into adulthood and asked a heck of a lot of questions in the process. Having been raised in a Jewish synagogue, I grokked more of the cultural background of Jesus than the average churchgoer does. Also, Alfred Edersheim's The Life And Times of Jesus the Messiah is a classic late 19th century work on the Jewish background of the Christian church. By a Jewish man who also came to Christianity as an adult, and having ready access to Jewish traditional works in their original language, it has no problem with Good Friday being Good Friday, not Good Wednesday.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

That is how Blockbuster counts their 3-day rental. Rent a movie at 10:00 pm and you’ve already had it one full day.

[captmar-vell]

I agree, it was on a Wednesday, ‘the midst of the week’ a pattern which repeats over an over, and will again

its my conjecture the ‘sign of Jonas’ Jesus gave to a ‘wicked and adulterous generation’ has far more meaning than just the three days and three nights in the tomb, it was that too, and I'm equally impressed if its only 1 day.

I believe Jesus(the Temple made flesh) was crucified on Wednesday April 9th, 32 AD and it was exactly 14,000 days later the physical Temple was destroyed on August 10-12th 70 AD (9th of AV)

Their (Israel's)house was left desolate. This was the meaning of what Jesus told the women crying as they marched him past them to the cross, “weep for yourselves, and for your children”

“For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?” Luke 23:31

there is far more going on with this timeline and the alignments of days than many are aware.

[Ackackadack]

Also, Alfred Edersheim's The Life And Times of Jesus the Messiah is a classic late 19th century work on the Jewish background of the Christian church.

Sounds interesting, and I will take a look at it. Thanks for mentioning it.