To understand the connection between Easter and Passover, look to Jerusalem in the time of Jesus, writes scholar Paula Fredriksen
Passover and Easter always arrive at the same season—this year, just days apart—and that is no accident. In fact, some of Christianity’s core ideas, images and theological convictions can be traced back to the ancient Jewish holiday.
Passover in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem is the historical anchor of the Gospels’ accounts of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Freedom from slavery and from oppression, in Jewish tradition; freedom from sin and from death, in Christian tradition: All of these ideas come together around the figure of Jesus of Nazareth. And that is because Jesus himself kept Passover.
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