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Origen, Selecta in psalmos 118, 164.

”Justin, Dialog with Trypho 41, 4.

Justin, Dialog with Trypho 24, 1.

Tertullian, De Baptismo 19.

See Raymond E. Brown, The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Graves—A Commentary on the Passsion Narratives in the Four Gospels, 2 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1994), appendix 2, “Dating the Crucifixion (Day, Month, Date, Year), pp. 1350–1378.

See David Ulansey, “Solving the Mithraic Mysteries,” BAR 20:05; and Roger Beck, Planetary Gods and Planetary Orders in the Mystery of Mithras (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988).

Rachel Wischnitzer, “Number Symbolism in Dura Synagogue Paintings,” in Joshua Finkel Festschrift, eds. Sidney Hoenig and Leon Stitskin (New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1974), pp. 159–171.

For discussion of varieties of ancient Jewish-Christianity and for evidence that the issue was of concern to rabbis, see Stephen Goranson, The Joseph of Tiberias Episode in Epiphanius: Studies in Jewish and Christian Relations (Duke University dissertation, 1990), pp. 73–97. Also note that the Babylonian Talmud disapproves of the yom nos\ri, a reference to the Christian calendar.