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This is the first book to describe and analyze, sequentially and in detail, all the persons, places, times, and events mentioned in the Gospel accounts of Jesus’s last week in Jerusalem. Part reference guide, part theological exploration, Eckhard Schnabel’s Jesus in Jerusalem uses the biblical text and recent archaeological evidence to find meaning in Jesus’s final days on earth. Schnabel...

their Passover sacrifices on Nisan 13 (Thursday afternoon) and celebrated the Passover meal on Nisan 14 (Thursday evening). The rabbinic evidence shows that there were indeed disputes and disparities in Jewish Palestine regarding the Passover calendar and that some people offered their Passover sacrifices early, for a variety of reasons. While there is no evidence that would allow us to conclude that Jesus (and the writers of the Synoptic Gospels) knew and followed a Pharisaic calendar when he celebrated
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