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Quote: "Eusebius claims that James the Just, the brother of Jesus, functioned as a high priest," I've been looking for that online, unsuccessfully. I suppose you mean in his History of the Church. Do you know in which book? Thanks.

Where the word mashiach (“anointed,” “messiah”) occurs in the Hebrew Bible, it is translated in the Septuagint as christos and in the Vulgate the Greek word was carried over into Latin in the form christus. It can sometimes appear in the plural, “anointed ones,” as in Psalm 104 (105):15 15...

In this discussion my focus is on calendars for one reason only. As I have said several times, my belief is that the Last Supper was a Passover meal held on the same evening as everyone else's Passover meals in Jerusalem. Those who disagree with that view, seeing a one-day gap between the two...

I freely admit that about the Talmud in general I know very little. I have always found the Tractates pretty impenetrable. About Josephus: I'd say I'm fully familiar with Book 18 of the Antiquities and fairly familiar with Books 19 & 20. The earlier books, much less.The War I read many years...

Me too, just the same. Most of all to learn. I’m glad, for instance, that I read those pages in Josephus about the calendar. At the same time, it was frustrating to find there was nothing in them that might have helped to move our discussion forward. Are you really interested in the Passover/...

Yes, I read the whole of Menachot 10. As I said in my post #10, all the disputes mentioned there focus on what kind of work can or cannot be done on a Sabbath or another holy day. There is no mention at all of such a thing as two different calendars in use by different Jewish communities at the...

I have now read Menachot 10 (link below) and I need to ask, Are you sure that’s the right chapter? There’s a lot in it about disagreements between the rabbis, but only concerning what actions, in connection with harvesting grains and preparing food, are allowed on the Sabbath and on certain...

@Inquisitor and @Mem, I’m suddenly surprised to find that I need to ask you both a very basic question ― so basic, in fact, that it hadn’t previously crossed my mind that your answer might be anything other than a plain “Yes.” Now I'm not so sure. The question is this: In your view, did Jesus...

Thank you, @Bible_Locket . That COJS link is very interesting. The information about the calendar is new to me, but I note that it doesn’t expressly say anything about different dates for Passover. The question that remains unanswered is this: If the Last Supper was indeed a Passover meal (which...

No, my idea is a much simpler one than that. In this passage Jesus lists a series of six actions and says people who did those things are saved and people who didn’t are not saved. That is the only idea I’m expressing here.

Can you please quote a source for your information that the Pharisees used a different calendar? Preferably, of course, a chapter and verse in the NT but, if not, then another author who was living at around the same time. Thank you!

No, I am not "interpreting" anything at all. I am simply reading the words on the printed page.

Correction: Matthew 25

Going back to the passage in Matthew 28 that I cut-and-pasted in my post #3280, is Jesus saying here that a person who has performed the corporal works of mercy will be saved whereas a person who has not performed them will not be saved? That’s what it looks like to me. Just that, nothing else.

Thank you, @biblestudent78. Is it safe to say, then, that any Galileans coming to Jerusalem for the Passover must have been using the same calendar as the Sadducees and consequently must have brought their lambs to the Temple on the same day as everyone else?

Yes, I have read it carefully. Have you? Note the words: Whenever you did this. “Did.” Do you understand what the word “did” means? To “do” something is to perform an action. What Jesus is saying here is that, in order to be considered righteous, we have to perform certain actions. He lists...

Yes, that's why they call it Anno Mundi, "year of the world," abbreviated as AM.

Two points occur to me here. Galileans could have been “supportive” of the Essenes without abandoning the official calendar to adopt a radically different calendar instead. And, in any case, Jesus and the Twelve had arrived in Jerusalem as pilgrims to celebrate the Passover. Would the Temple...

Dave, would you agree that this is implicit in the righteous people's reaction in verses 37-39? 31 “When the Son of Man comes as King and all the angels with him, he will sit on his royal throne, 32and the people of all the nations will be gathered before him. Then he will divide them into two...

Yes, I’ve found the calendar reference in Allegro’s book. The Qumran sect evidently used the so-called Enoch calendar of exactly 52 weeks or 364 days in each year. That’s the only calendar he mentions apart from the standard Hebrew calendar which was strictly lunar. Is this the calendar that...