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Mar. 21st, 2008 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuA quick Google and Wikipedia search has been unable to locate a satisfactory answer to this question:
Both Passover and Easter are scheduled based on the 19-year Metonic cycle. In some years, such as this one, however, Judaism intercalates the extra month one year before the Western Church does, resulting in Easter and Passover not coinciding. What is the nature of the difference in calculation, when was that difference introduced, and why?
Both Passover and Easter are scheduled based on the 19-year Metonic cycle. In some years, such as this one, however, Judaism intercalates the extra month one year before the Western Church does, resulting in Easter and Passover not coinciding. What is the nature of the difference in calculation, when was that difference introduced, and why?