RT Article
T1 Literary Fiction or Ancient Astronomical and Meteorological Observations in the Work of Maria Valtorta?
JF Religions
VO 8
IS 6
SP 1
OP 23
A1 Matricciani, Emilio
A1 De Caro, Liberato
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1586228463
AB In The Gospel as revealed to me, Maria Valtorta reports a lot of information on the Holy Land at the time of Jesus: historical, archaeological, astronomical, geographical, meteorological. She states she has written what seen “in vision”. By a detailed astronomical analysis of explicit and implicit calendar information reported while she narrates detailed episodes concerning the three years of Jesus' public life—possible because of many references to lunar phases, constellations, planets visible in the night sky in her writings—it is ascertained that every event described implies a precise date—day, month, year—without being explicitly reported by her. For example, Jesus' crucifixion should have occurred on Friday April 23 of the year 34, a date proposed by Isaac Newton. She has also recorded the occurrence of rain so that the number of rainy days reported can be compared to the current meteorological data, supposing random observations and no important changes in rainfall daily frequency in the last 2000 years, the latter issue discussed in the paper. Unexpectedly, both the annual and monthly averages of rainy days deduced from the data available from the Israel Meteorological Service and similar averages deduced from her writings agree very well.
K1 Gospel
K1 Holy Land
K1 Jesus Christ
K1 Roman Palestine
K1 Valtorta Maria
K1 Astronomy
K1 meteorology
K1 mystic visions
K1 Rain
DO 10.3390/rel8060110