I'm impressed that Sir Robert Anderson was able to calculate the actual number of days needed to count for Daniel's weeks prophecy. This has been well explained but unfortunately is not my question.
What I've been attempting to ask is how are the actual days of the week accurately determined for Nissan for the year in the Gregorian calender of 33 CE? That is, if there a calculation used to determine what day of the week an ancient day landed on? For instance how do we know that 10 Nissan 32 CE was a Thursay and not say a Monday?
It seems that most Christians agree that Messiyah was crucified on a Friday, a Passover day, and appeared alive to his disciples on the following Sunday, and I'm guessing many(errantly) date this event to 30 CE. Others propose different dates such as 32 CE. If we can independently determine the day Passover occured in that range and again independently determine the day of the week it fell on, hence a Passover that fell on the sixth day of the week (Friday), then this should settle the matter. So I ask how does one accurately calculate the days of the week for these ancient years, or even determine when Passover fell and convert the date between calendars?
It appears to me YY must have determined a way to do this and I was hoping to learn this method? I've determined that for our modern calendar the day of the week shifts back a day each year and falls back an extra day every leap year. So if we wanted to determine the day of the week for 1 April 33 CE, how could we do that?
In my quest I have just come across an interesting website
http://calendarhome.com that I checked and shows April 1st 33 CE to fall on a Wednesday. I am suspicious of this site's methodology as when I checked April 1, 1601 it showed this to be a Wednesday whereas Outlook showed a Sunday for the same date? I'm guessing there must be some difference even the leap year day does not catch and I'm not sure how this is accounted for? For the curious calendarhome's 10,000 year calendar shows "Palm Sunday" to be April 5th, "Good Friday" to be April 10th, and "Easter Sunday" to be April 12th for 33 CE. Again I'm not clear on that websites methodology.
Curiously the link from calendarhome.com when one clicks on "Good Friday" goes to the wikipedia articles which states in part:
Quote:Jesus's [Yahushua's] possible death date
Using the data in the Gospels and other sources to calculate the date of Christ's [Messiyah's] death is not a simple matter.
It is believed by many to have occurred on a Friday evening in April. It would seem that there was a coincidence: at that time the constellation of Southern Cross was entirely visible low in the South from Jerusalem. Due to precession this is no longer the case. The most probable date is 3 April AD 33. A partial lunar eclipse also took place on this date.
As an interesting note, I checked the site's date converter and found that 14 Nisan 3793 on their Hebrew calendar which according to this site the Gregorian date would be Thursday April 2, 33 CE. I remain cautious because in testing dates back and forth between the Hebrew and Gregorian in their converter, the days and dates seem to fluxuate somewhat and even presents days and dates that differ as compared to the sites at a glance or printable calendars. Very curious. I'm still hoping that this matter can be conclusively resolved.