The Early Christians
n“The actual introduction of Easter-Sunday appears to
have occurred earlier in
Palestine after Emperor Hadrian ruthlessly
crushed the Barkokeba revolt (A.D. 132-135)... The fact that the Passover controversy arose when Emperor Hadrian adopted new repressive measures against Jewish religious practices suggests that such measures influenced the new Gentile hierarchy to change the date of Passover from Nisan 14 to the following Sunday (Easter-Sunday) in order to show separation and differentiation from the Jews and the Jewish
Christians”
- Samuele Bacchiocchi, God's Festival in Scripture and History, 1995, pp. 101-103
- Samuele Bacchiocchi, God's Festival in Scripture and History, 1995, pp. 101-103