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The origins of Easter: little-known fun facts
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"The origins of Easter:
little-known fun facts
by Dave Bonta for Via Negativa , April 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10, 2004
Here's an unsystematic presentation of some of the scholarly thinking about Easter and Passover. Regular readers of this blog will not need a disclaimer about my own lack of credentials as a scholar. I'm merely an interested layperson, a religiously inclined agnostic with no particular axes to grind. Please keep in mind that biblical scholars themselves disagree about nearly everything.
I will of necessity favor the reductionist approach, about which I do harbor some reservations. Source-criticism has its roots in the scientism and progressivism of the 19th century. Motivated by the anti-Semitic belief that the Rabbis couldn't possibly know what the Old Testament was all about, German Protestant scholars began to vivisect the text in an ultimately fruitless search for the "original" meaning of the Bible. By contrast, some recent scholars favor a more holistic approach, focusing on received textual interpretations - the Bible as it has been lived (or selectively ignored) by actual faith communities. But much as I enjoy this latter approach, I won't be drawing on it much here.
I mention this only to point out that the following compendium of nifty interpretations shouldn't be read as a guide to what Passover and Easter "really mean." Such a discussion would involve us in nothing less than a sweeping critique of Judaism and Christianity themselves - which would make for a really, really long post, even for me.
As for what "really happened," either during the Exodus or the Passion, I'll be touching on that only negatively, to emphasize how much we DON'T know. Given how little we know about key events of our own time (the JFK assassination, the events of September 11, 2001), we could well argue that such lack of verifiable knowledge is a prime marker of events of transcendent significance in the history of every sacre"
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