In <[email protected]>, on
12/23/2010
at 03:42 PM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> said:
>I think they had scheduled the census for taxation for Passover, when
>most of the Jewish people would have gathered in their hometown
>anyway.
No, in Jerusalem, unless Rome didn't allow it.
>Easter is now celebrated on same day as Passover.
AFAIK the church defined Easter in such a way as to prevent that.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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