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When was Jesus historically born?
Around Clement of Alexandria he disccuses dating in (Stromateis 1.21.144-146):
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Why was Orthodox Christmas assigned to 7 January?
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History of reading pagan origins into Christmas
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Origin of Christmas
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History of the “Yule” holiday
Yule started out as a month name. In the Germanic calendar, the two months on either side of each solstice had the same name: so the months on either side of the summer solstice were called litha, or alternatively ‘former litha’ and ‘latter litha’, and the months on either side of the winter solstice were…
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Are there Jewish origins to Lent?
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Origin of Lent
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Origin of Easter
Tying the fourth day or creation – Genesis 1:14-19 – to increasing daylight hours to the spring equinox: specifically to the 4th day after the spring equinox. (Susan K. Roll, Towards the Origins of Christmas Kampen, Kok Pharos Publishing, 1995: p.64)
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Easter eggs
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Academic resources on the Easter Bunny
For Eostre: Philip A. Shaw has given a full discussion of this subject in Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons (Bloomsbury, 2011) and mentions further onomastic evidence that Eostre was a Germanic goddess, including place names in England including Eastry in Kent (which was attested in the…