Re:  Steve Berryman (5 Mar 2008)  "To Marilyn Agee, subject questions"
 
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/mar2008/steveb35.htm
 
First of all, enjoyed what I had time to read.  The rest will have to wait till tomorrow.  Maybe I can help with what I did read.  Maybe not.
 
I was actually explaining TODAY to a couple of Christian colleagues about all the reasons pointing to Jesus Christ being crucified on a Wednesday and probably put in the grave right at mid-night, being resurrected as best as we have reason to guess, exactly 72 hours later.  One the points I had missed a few years ago and just recently realized is that Jesus celebrated Passover as a Galilean, which according to the research I had seen, I believe follows the Essene tradition of always being on a  Tuesday night.  That sort of nails it to the wall.  I don't have all the original documentation at my fingertips but I did find the following link by googling:
 
http://www.raptureready.com/featured/reagan/dr14.html
 
Also, as the Romans would have taken Jesus off the cross right before sundown instead of letting him stay there as a spectacle all night as they normally did, to please the Jewish leaders.  He then was wrapped according to scripture with 100 pounds of aloe, spices, and linen swaddlings, like a mummy.  This was very costly for this much material to be applied and not normally done for people not of rich means.  And it would also had taken some time which brings us to the original passover time of mid-night, which seems for a lot of other reasons as well to fit.
 
Once last point that might help.  Maybe not.  Hopefully it hasn't already been used.  If I told someone off the street that Jerusalem was unified under Jewish rule on June 7, 1967.  And then asked them when the Jews could celebrate Jerusalem being under Jewish rule for 41 years, I would think almost everyone would either say June 7, 2008, or if they were Jewish and going off the standard Jewish calendar, June 2, 2008.  Anytime before these dates would be less than 41 years, i.e. less than 41 stripes.  (One year old on Iyar 28, in 1968, forty one years old on Iyar 28, in 2008.)
 
I look forward to reading the rest of the post tomorrow but it is now late.
 
Shalom,
Ted Porter