The link below - inside the Brazilian arm of Yahoo - shows a translation into portuguese of a Reuter's article. My comment on that (below the link) was sent minutes ago, twice. But was not included on the Yahoo page, among the other comments. It means it surely is worthy reading and considering.
Also amazing is to note that while the Reuters-UK page has no comments - I just sent mine, which, if approved, will be the first -, Yahoo page showing the translation counts already about 400 comments.
The Link (portuguese version):
http://br.noticias.yahoo.com/pesquisador-diz-que-data-da-p%C3%A1scoa-pode-ser-20110418-073728-902.html#mwpphu-container
The Fool's Day as the new date for Easter would ironically fit in a way
THE COMMENT: (first comes the version in portuguese; then, in english)
Primeiro de abril não pega bem - é o dia do tolo. Até o papa João Paulo II passou aqui mais um dia, graças à medicina avançada, para não morrer justo no 'primeiro de abril'. Quanto ao obstinado pesquisador, ele parte de um erro primordial - santa ceia. Portanto, ache o que achar, tá tudo sem sentido. Lembrando, Jesus não poderia ser católico - o catolicismo, ao qual a santa ceia única e exclusivamente pertence, só começou a tomar forma uns seis a sete séculos mais tarde. Já que o desconhecimento é gigantesco, e a doutrinação fértil feito... coelho, encerro com isto, que serve a quase todos: escolham bem o chocolate!
ENGLISH: The first of April is not favorable - it is the fool's day. Even the pope John Paul II spent one more day here on earth, thanks to modern medicine, so as not to die exactly on April 1st. As for the determined researcher, he departed from an fundamental mistake - last supper. So, no matter what he found, it is flawy. Remember, Jesus could not be a catholic; catholicism - where the last supper only and exclusively belongs to - only began to gain shape about six or seven centuries later. Since there is enormous ignorance, and indoctrination is fertile as... a rabbit, I end up with this, which can suit almost everyone: be selective about the chocolate!
Here is the original text in the Reuters blog
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/04/18/uk-easter-date-idUKTRE73H2HO20110418
Academic says Easter date can now be fixed
By Nia WilliamsLONDON |
LONDON (Reuters) - The Last Supper took place on a Wednesday -- a day earlier than thought -- and a date for Easter can now be fixed, according to a Cambridge University scientist aiming to solve one of the Bible's most enduring contradictions.
Christians have marked Jesus' final meal on Maundy Thursday for centuries but thanks to the rediscovery of an ancient Jewish calendar, Professor Colin Humphreys suggests another interpretation.
"I was intrigued by Biblical stories of the final week of Jesus in which no one can find any mention of Wednesday. It's called the missing day," Humphreys told Reuters. "But that seemed so unlikely: after all Jesus was a very busy man."
His findings help explain a puzzling inconsistency between the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, who said the Last Supper coincided with Passover and John, who said the meal took place before the Jewish holy day commemorating the Exodus from Egypt.
Humphreys' research suggests Jesus, and Matthew, Mark and Luke, were using the Pre-Exilic Calendar, which dated from the time of Moses and counted the first day of the new month from the end of the old lunar cycle, while John was referring to the official Jewish calendar of the day.
"It was an extremely curious mistake for anyone to make because for Jewish people Passover was such an important meal," said Humphreys, a metallurgist and materials scientist and a Christian.
"The contradictions have been known for a long time but not been talked about by the general public very much. I am using science and the Bible hand in hand to solve this question and showing the Gospels are actually agreeing, just using different calendars."
If the Passover meal and the Last Supper did take place on a Wednesday it would help explain how the large number of events that the Gospels record between the Last Supper and the Crucifixion were able to take place.
With the help of an astronomer, Humphreys reconstructed the Pre-Exilic calendar and placed Passover in the year AD 33, widely accepted as the year of Jesus' crucifixion, on Wednesday April 1.
That means if modern Christians wished to ascribe a date for Easter based on Humphreys' calculations, which he has been mulling over since 1983, Easter Day would fall on the first Sunday in April.
(Editing by Steve Addison)
