{"id":77,"date":"2020-06-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=77"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:58:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T17:58:12","slug":"scheduling-jesus-the-weather-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Scheduling Jesus &#8211; The Weather Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are we talking about the weather? The weather cycle affected Jesus&#8217;\u00a0experience just like it does ours today.<\/p>\n<p>Although we do not have a daily forecast for Jesus&#8217; last year, we have descriptions of the region&#8217;s weather. There\u00a0were two seasons:\u00a0summer heat and winter rains.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, there is no precipitation\u00a0during the\u00a0summer months. Dew is the only form of moisture. People were free to gather outside or travel without the threat of rain.<\/p>\n<p>Winter weather was another story.\u00a0Rains impacted travel and other outdoor activity. Concerning precipitation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Average annual rainfall in Jerusalem is roughly that of rainy London, but Jerusalem has 50 days of rain to London&#8217;s 300.&#8221; (<em>Anchor Bible Dictionary<\/em>, vol. 5, 124)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;From November to February, rain falls in periods of a few days, sometimes with intensity.&#8221; (<em>Anchor Bible Dictionary<\/em>, vol. 5, 122)<\/li>\n<li>The Hebrew Bible records a story where the people protested gathering in the rain (Ezra 10:9-15).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The SpendaYearwithJesus story gives subscribers a sense\u00a0for how Jesus and his followers adapted to their climate. Blue skies, hot days, winter rains and even snow at higher elevations were all part of Jesus&#8217; experience.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Anchor Bible Dictionary<\/em>, ed. David Noel Freedman (New York: Doubleday, 1991).<br \/>\n<em>Jesus and His Times<\/em>, ed. Kaari Ward\u00a0 (Pleasantville, New York: The Reader\u2019s Digest Association, Inc., 1987).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are we talking about the weather? The weather cycle affected Jesus&#8217;\u00a0experience just like it does ours today. Although we do not have a daily forecast for Jesus&#8217; last year, we have descriptions of the region&#8217;s weather. There\u00a0were two seasons:\u00a0summer heat and winter rains. Simply put, there is no precipitation\u00a0during the\u00a0summer months. Dew is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telling-the-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}