The Mystery of the Last Supper: Reconstructing the Final Days of Jesus

by Colin J. Humphreys

• ISBN13: 9780521517553
• ISBN10: 0521517559
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

For centuries, we thought we knew what happened during Jesus' last days. Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday are not only observed by Christians around the world, but are also recognized in calendars and by non-practitioners as commemorating events in the final week of Jesus' life. But apparent inconsistencies in the Gospel accounts of this period have continued to puzzle Bible scholars -and fuel skeptics. In The Mystery of the Last Supper, Colin Humphreys uses science to reveal the truth about Jesus' final days. Reconciling conflicting biblical accounts with scientific evidence, Humphreys proves that the Gospels, correctly interpreted, are in remarkable agreement. He reveals the exact date of the Last Supper in a groundbreaking new timeline of Holy Week. Colin Humphreys is director of research at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Miracles of Exodus (2003). He was awarded a knighthood in 2010 for services to Science.

Author Biography

Sir Colin J. Humphreys is Professor and Director of Research at the DePartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Miracles of Exodus (2003)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vi
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Four mysteries of the last week of Jesus	p. 1
Dating the crucifixion - the first clues	p. 14
The problem of the last supper	p. 26
Can we reconstruct the Jewish calendar at the time of Christ?	p. 39
The date of the crucifixion	p. 61
The moon will be turned to blood	p. 80
Did Jesus use the solar calendar of Qumran for his last supper Passover?	p. 95
Does ancient Egypt hold a key to unlocking the problem of the last supper?	p. 110
Discovering the lost calendar of ancient Israel	p. 121
Was the lost ancient Jewish calendar used in Israel at the time of Jesus?	p. 135
The date of the last supper; the hidden clues in the gospels	p. 151
From the last supper to the crucifixion: a new analysis of the gospel accounts	p. 169
A new reconstruction of the final days of Jesus	p. 191
Notes	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 227
Index of biblical and other ancient sources	p. 234
General index	p. 239
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