Christians have long celebrated Jesus Christ's Last Supper on Maundy (Holy) Thursday, but new research -- just released today (April 18, 2011) -- claims to show it took place on the Wednesday before the crucifixion, the Agence France Presse website reports.
Prof. Colin Humphreys -- a scientist at the University of Cambridge in England -- asserts his findings strengthen the case for finally introducing a fixed date for Easter.
In Humphreys' theory, Jesus went by an old-fashioned Jewish calendar, rather than the official lunar calendar which is still in use today. It would follow that Jesus' arrest, interrogation, and separate trials did not take place in the space of one night, but in fact occurred over a longer period.
Humphreys believes a date could therefore be ascribed to Easter in our modern solar calendar, and working on the basis that the crucifixion took place on April 3, Easter Day would be on April 5.
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