Was There A Solar Eclipse During The Crucifixion?

[Hypognosis]

This question should be an "old chesnut", to anyone born later than the Renaissance, since thinkers of that time were the first to find a crucial internal contradiction, in the gospel accounts. If it is the first time this has been asked, on Answerbank, I ought to be surprised.

So, in detail, I need to ask whether gospel statement are generic: "the skies darkened", or specific: "the skies grew dark with clouds"; "the sun's disk was obscured" and so on.

[Mamyalynne]

Probably did, am too warm.

[Hypognosis]

@thread

Unless you have time on your hands, or boundless curiosity, don't read this link.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/eclipse/Assyrian

I'm only posting it so I can return to it without googling. If you pull the scroll bar to very nearly the end it is making a point about tiny but cumulative changes in day length and moon orbit which means some computed ancient solar/lunar eclipses can be mis-timed by hours, thus putting predicted ground track thousands of miles out. Cloverjo's link is from NASA and has a column labeled "delta T(seconds)", which I was initially clueless about but could well be just such a correction factor.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh ye of little faith. God cleared blocked the photons from the sun from arriving, in order to show he was an angry God; thus causing an obscured sun.

[Old_Geezer]

...clearly...
as I typed until 1 us after pressing submit.

[naomi24]

//by extension, the whole Bible becomes "poetic licence", does it not? //

It does indeed. This was discussed here many years ago, so perhaps time to re-visit the subject.

[Zacs-Master]

Please....no!

[naomi24]

Zacs-Master, way before your time.

[Zacs-Master]

Are I sure? 10 years 'service' this year.

[Zacs-Master]

Same as you I see.

[naomi24]

You need to sort your profile out then. Member since Sun 25th Dec 2011.

[naomi24]

I was here before that under another name.

[Zacs-Master]

I'm on my second coming N. (Clouds part and a shaft of light strikes the faithful) I was minus the hyphen in those days. I remember when chatterbank didn't exist and we could write in colour.

[Zacs-Master]

Ah, you see, we have much in common. Maybe we were made for each other in a parallel universe?

[naomi24]

Haaaaaa! The good old days. I miss the people who inhabited this section then. Such fun!

[Zacs-Master]

Remember the TrustanD40 thread?

[naomi24]

Can't say I do.

[Zacs-Master]

Seems to have been consigned to the AB dungeon.

[naomi24]

I thought all the stuff here was supposed to be 'banked'.

[Zacs-Master]

You would have thought so, wouldn't you. What with the name 'n'all.

[naomi24]

Mmm.... but with such elastic rules nothing surprises me. :o)