Passover in the calendars of the Old Testament
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https://doi.org/10.21906/rbl.219Keywords:
Passover, Unleavened Bread, biblical calendar, shepherds’ feast, worship, IsraelAbstract
The Jewish feast of Pesah was born in the circle of the shepherds’ culture, more precisely in the Semitic seminomadic groups. It was being celebrated during the spring, at the beginning of a new year. During the time of Josiah’s reforms, it became a pilgrimage feast. Historical experience of the exodus from Egypt and its theological interpretation and several reinterpretations coming afterwards, changed that nomadic and shepherds’ feast, connected with agricultural feast of Unleavened Bread, into the most important national feast of Israel. Calendars coming from biblical texts are showing a multistage development of actual feast of Passover.
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2009-12-31
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Jędrzejewski, S. (2009). Passover in the calendars of the Old Testament. The Biblical and Liturgical Movement, 62(4), 253–268. https://doi.org/10.21906/rbl.219
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