[Sca-cooks] a Lenten question-

[Carole Smith]

That's correct that Jesus went into the desert immediately after his baptism, at the beginning of his ministry rather at the end.
 
The assumption seems to be that Lent was always 40 days.  I'm pretty sure it hasn't always been this lengthy, but I'm in the middle of becoming unemployed and do not have time right now to check where I read this.
 
Cordelia Toser

Jeff Gedney <gedney1 at iconn.net> wrote:
sorry, but that is incorrect... 

Jesus went in to the desert BEFORE his ministry not at the end. According to the gosple of Mark, Chapter 4, it was immediately after he was baptized by John the Baptist. 

The tradition of fasting for fourty days and nights to self purify, or in atonment is prechristian...
For example, in Deuteronomy 9:18 Moses fasts on a mountaintop fourty days:
"Then once again I fell prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and so provoking him to anger" 

Forty is an important number in Hebrew numerology and appears again and again in the old and new testament. Many of the reigns and interregnums that are listed in Chronicles are forty years long. 

Capt Elias
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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Aurelia Rufinia 
Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA 
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:20:30 -0800 (PST)

>No. Lent is the period of Forthy Days and forty night
>nights that Jesus went into the desert and was
>apparently tempted by Satan to not go through with the
>whole crucifixtion/resurrection thing. At the end fo
>that, Jesus goes to Jerusalem on a donkey, had the
>Last Supper, and we know the rest of the story. 
>
>Forty days and forty nights does show up multiple
>times, in the flood, and the after the Exodus when the
>hewbrews were wandering around trying to find the
>promised land for forty years. And also Lent. It is
>a little confusing.
>
>Aurelia
>
>> 
>> I've just recently come onto this thread, and I'm
>> far from a religious 
>> scholar,
>> but I think Lent is different from Jesus, or at
>> least the tradition started 
>> differently
>> from the Judaism. Doesn't Lent celebrate mankind
>> surviving the Flood?
>> That's why it lasts 40 days and you cannot eat
>> anything but fish because all
>> other animals were preserved on the ark.
>> 
>> I don't know how this then coincided with Jesus'
>> ressurection and I could
>> totaly have my facts screwed.
>> 
>> Gunthar
>> 
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