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![]() ![]() "It might be thought curious that a crucifixion lunar eclipse is not mentioned in the Gospels," Humphreys and Waddington conclude. The color of the rising lunar eclipse would have been enhanced by the dust particles suspended in the atmosphere over Jerusalem by the storm. Importantly, the scientists say, the Earth's shadow was near the top of the rising moon, making 65 percent of it to appear to be in eclipse. (the start of the Jewish Sabbath and of Passover in 33) with about 20 percent of its disc eclipsed, and the eclipse finished some 30 minutes later at 6:50 p.m." "The moon rose above the Jerusalem horizon at about 6:20 p.m. "Our calculations show that this eclipse was visible from Jerusalem at moonrise," Humphreys and Waddington write, contradicting scholars who thought the eclipse occurred out of sight of Jerusalem. So much dust was spewed into into the air from the storm that it caused the moon to look blood-red when it became visible to Jerusalem residents late in the day. The Oxford scientists say the sun turned to darkness April 3, 33, because, according to accounts in Roman literature, a massive dust storm occurred that day. Time after time in Biblical history, scholars wrote that the "sun turned to darkness" while Jesus died on the cross and the "moon to blood" just after He died. George's Day," a high Anglican holiday.īetween the remaining two dates-April 7, 30, and April 3, 33-Humphreys and Waddington come out for the latter because it is the only Friday in April (at Passover time) when the moon was eclipsed by the Earth in any year from 26 to 36, the years Pontius Pilate served as Roman governor of Jerusalem and could have ordered the execution of Jesus. They add: "The only eminent advocate of 23 April, 34, is Sir Isaac Newton, whose chief reason seems to have been that 23 April is St. The Oxford scientists use Biblical history to dismiss 27 as being too soon and 34 as being too late. "However, the more accurate calculations presented here prove that this eclipse was visible."įor centuries, scholars have argued whether Christ was crucified on one of four April Fridays in the first century: April 11, in the year 27 April 7, in the year 30 April 3, in the year 33, and April 23, in the year 34. "Presumably, this eclipse was considered irrelevant to the date of the Crucifixion since it was believed to be invisible from Jerusalem," the two Oxford scientists declare. Humphreys and Waddington say that this eclipse appeared to be "blood red" and followed a dust storm that "darkened the sun," just as the apostles said in the Gospels. Waddington, writing in the prestigious British journal Nature, present fresh evidence that the Crucifixion took place on the first Friday of April, 33, based on a calculation that a partial eclipse of the moon could be seen in Jerusalem on that date. Four dates have been proposed by scholars as the historical date of the Crucifixion of Christ, but only one-Friday, April 3, in the year 33 A.D.-is backed up by astronomical history, two Oxford University scientists say.Ĭolin J. ![]()
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