We know little about Jesus of Nazareth, but he was not a fiction but a real person whose life the sources that narrate his biography, the Gospels, follow a fairly accurate chronology without naming a single person. Modern biblical exegesis makes it possible to fix the date of his death with considerable precision. It would have taken place on Friday, April 7, 30, although some experts move it to Thursday, the 6th, considering that the removal from the cross and the burial of the body of the Nazarene should have taken place before six o’clock in the afternoon on the 7th, which for the Jews was already Saturday, a day in which such tasks could no longer be performed. That year was the only one in that period in which the holy holiday of Easter fell on Saturday, as the Gospel says. Likewise, his birth will occur around the year 6 “BC”, in which the census imposed by the Roman emperor mentioned in the Bible was carried out. So, Jesus would have lived on this Earth for about thirty-six years.

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According to the Hebrew calendar, Jesus’ death would have occurred on the 13th or 14th day of the first month of the year, that of Nisan, the one when plants sprout, which covers the first lunar cycle of spring. Easter, which is associated with the departure of the Jews from Egypt, is celebrated from the 15th of Nisan, which was a Saturday in the year of the crucifixion. Easter week is always a full moon. Instead of marking Jesus’ death and resurrection according to the Jewish lunar calendar, which would have been historically acceptable, or dating according to the Western solar calendar, which would have been more practical, the Christian churches have opted for a terribly complicated system. , which mixes the two. The great mathematician Carl Friedrich Gaus formulated an equation that allows us to know the exact day of the holiday, but it is still unclear. Behind this forced maneuver was a sectarian purpose so that the Christian Easter would never coincide with the Jewish one.

In Israel, the celebration of the Jewish Passover, the holiday of freedom, begins

There is an additional difficulty. Whether lunar or solar, the year does not last in exact days, but there are small differences in hours and minutes, which accumulate over decades and accuracy is lost. For this reason, each calendar has a system to “embolize” these differences and match the religious or legal date with the astronomical date. The exception is the Islamic calendar, which is simplified by removing all embellishments so that the months do not correspond to what their names describe. A month of drought or freezing may fall into the rainy season.

Calendars seem to be built around holy celebrations. This is not the case, the holidays are indicated according to the calendar. The measurement of time is created by farming and sedentary animal husbandry, there is a time for plowing and sowing, another for watering and fertilizing, even harvesting and storage. These activities must be planned and celebrated with appropriate celebrations. The deity is thanked for the gifts of the land and a bonanza is sought for the next season. This is not a materialistic interpretation of the sacred time, it is a vision of the power of myth that shows the reality of the spirit behind its images. (OR)