On the Passover
Being a student of the Bible, one must realize that he cannot possibly know or study everything associated with all that is necessary in order to gain a truly thorough understanding of the entire book and the history of our race. So on calendrical issues I usually defer to others - when their propositions are sensible - even though I myself have not done an in-depth study all of the details.
However certain things are perfectly clear without much study. The first is that the Feast of Weeks (first fruits), being anchored to the Passover by seven weeks and a day, must occur at the same time every year, or the calendar makes absolutely no sense from an agricultural perspective. And it is perfectly clear from the nature of the required feasts that the calendar centers on agriculture. So the correct calendar cannot possibly be the lunar calendar of the jews of today, which swings wildly from year to year and whereby the crops would either be rotting in the fields, or would not be harvestable at all in given years.
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