Friday, April 10, 2009

A Passover Amendment


I am reliably informed by Cllr. Andrew Johnson - who is an archaeologist, amongst many other attributes - that the Passover dinner commemorates the Jews fleeing from bondage in Egypt, 3,500 years ago, rather than the 3,000 that I had written in my previous posting last night.

According to Andrew, most scholars date the Exodus to about mid-15th Century BCE.

The Jerusalem Post newspaper, has a fascinating article on this HERE.

I have never been good at Maths!!

1 comment:

  1. Happy Easter to you and Vanda too!

    I posted the following on a BBC Have Your Say topic about the relevance of Easter earlier:

    "Like most Christians, I rarely respond to questions about spiritual issues on HYS because the BBC's ethos seems so anti-Christian.

    BBC moderators publish the most appallingly offensive - and at times hateful - posts about Christianity which they would not allow in respect of any other religion and which I believe must at times breach the law on hate crimes.

    Yet a number of my reasonable responses to such posts, very similar to this one I'm making now, have been rejected."

    The BBC's response:

    COMMENT STATUS: Rejected

    One example The sort of anti-Christian posts I've seen on BBC's Have Your Say:

    "Christians burn people"

    I made an official complaint about this and other equally offensive posts, yet the BBC did not remove these.

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