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Ambassador College and Recent Calendar History

Until the latter part of the 1980’s, most of the Church of God's holy day calendars were based on Arthur Spier's book The Comprehensive Hebrew Calendar. Spier's calendars covered the years 1899 to 2099. These calendars were fine for listing the yearly dates of the holy days; however, they were useless when it came to research.

Research on calendar dates before 1899 had to be done by lengthy hand calculations. The best scholars in biblical and calendric studies had trouble with such computations, often disagreeing with each other regarding the dates of various biblical events.

To help resolve the problem of researching Holy Day dates, Ambassador College in 1988/89 issued an automated Hebrew Calendar that could be run on new microcomputer technology. Although this Ambassador College calendar had great advantages over previous calendars, it also had great disadvantages.

Could a calendar program be created that was both accurate and could display Holy Day dates going back all the way to the CREATION of Adam and Eve? What complex issues had to be resolved to create a versatile, easy to use calendar program? What does the new program show in regard to the year Jesus was crucified and the last week of his life?

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Written by Carl Franklin

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