• DOI:10.1038/306743A0
Corpus ID: 4360560

Dating the Crucifixion

@article{Humphreys1983DatingTC,
  title={Dating the Crucifixion},
  author={C. Humphreys and W. Waddington},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1983},
  volume={306},
  pages={743-746}
}

C. Humphreys, W. Waddington

Published 1983

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The date of the Crucifixion has been debated for many years, but there has been no agreement on the year nor the day. Astronomical calculations have now been used to reconstruct the Jewish calendar in the first century AD and to date a lunar eclipse that biblical and other references suggest followed the Crucifixion. The evidence points to Friday 3 April AD 33 as the date when Jesus Christ died.