Pixner was a Benedictine monk at Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem. The books I have - “The Fifth Gospel: Walking with Jesus Through the Galilee” and “Jesus First and Last Days in Judea” are fascinating. He proposes there is simply not enough time between Gethsemane - Caiphas’ House - Sanhedrin - Pilate for it all to take place in a matter of hours. When I consider traditional times and locations, I fall back on what our first Jewish guide told us in 1998. “Some people come to the Holy Land wanting to stand in Jesus’ footsteps and their trip is ruined when they find out they’re just in the general vicinity. I encourage people to remember we are here to commemorate what God did in history.”
I picked up two of Bargil Pixner’s books in Israel. He thought it possible the Last Supper was celebrated on Tuesday according to the Essene calendar. This article doesn’t have the detail of the book, but you get the essence: https://apnews.com/article/594379cba0e281e5678dafd808cb2a90
Yeah that's what my brother in Christ was talking about: the Essene calendar. I'm sorta embarrassed that I didn't know about it. Apparently it was a solar calendar? I thought Jews had coalesced around a lunar calendar before that point. He said they only went lunar to get away from the clear implication that Christ was the promised Messiah, evidenced by his passion overlapping with the paschal schedule established in the old covenant. I need to make time to research this better, though I'm not sure the knowledge will help me to participate in our current liturgical setup more happily...
Pixner was a Benedictine monk at Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem. The books I have - “The Fifth Gospel: Walking with Jesus Through the Galilee” and “Jesus First and Last Days in Judea” are fascinating. He proposes there is simply not enough time between Gethsemane - Caiphas’ House - Sanhedrin - Pilate for it all to take place in a matter of hours. When I consider traditional times and locations, I fall back on what our first Jewish guide told us in 1998. “Some people come to the Holy Land wanting to stand in Jesus’ footsteps and their trip is ruined when they find out they’re just in the general vicinity. I encourage people to remember we are here to commemorate what God did in history.”
I picked up two of Bargil Pixner’s books in Israel. He thought it possible the Last Supper was celebrated on Tuesday according to the Essene calendar. This article doesn’t have the detail of the book, but you get the essence: https://apnews.com/article/594379cba0e281e5678dafd808cb2a90
Yeah that's what my brother in Christ was talking about: the Essene calendar. I'm sorta embarrassed that I didn't know about it. Apparently it was a solar calendar? I thought Jews had coalesced around a lunar calendar before that point. He said they only went lunar to get away from the clear implication that Christ was the promised Messiah, evidenced by his passion overlapping with the paschal schedule established in the old covenant. I need to make time to research this better, though I'm not sure the knowledge will help me to participate in our current liturgical setup more happily...