Is the Passover a Late Biblical Invention?
rabbiadam says: February 23, 2009 at 12:18 pm This is fascinating. The modern celebration of an eight-day festival as “Passover” is clearly not what Scripture intended, but rather Passover being one day and Unleavened Bread for seven… but of course, it also seems today to totally ignore the Day of First Firsts, which from a plain reading of the Leviticus passage takes place on the Sunday (Yom Rishon) following Passover. I’ve suspected this all came about to obscure the intrinsic connection of Passover & First Fruits to the crucifixion and resurrection. Log in to Reply mchuey says: February 23, 2009 at 3:29 pm I am glad to see that someone other than myself is willing to engage with JEDP Biblical scholarship, even though I don’t know a single Messianic (including myself) who believes it. During the festival times (most especially around Passover) this can be a major point of contention, because Leviticus 23 gives one set of instructions, and other instructions appear elsewhere in the Pe
