Easter

• Academic resources on the Easter Bunny
• Easter eggs
• Origin of Easter

Lent

• Origin of Lent
• Are there Jewish origins to Lent?

Yule

• History of the “Yule” holiday

Christmas

• Origin of Christmas
• History of reading pagan origins into Christmas
• Why was Orthodox Christmas assigned to 7 January?
• When was Jesus historically born?
• Christmas traditions
• Is Santa derived from Odin?
• Origins of Christmas (Paul F. Bradhshaw)
• Origins of Santa (Adam C. English)
• Where was Jesus born? (Jody Vaccaro Lewis)
• The Origin of Christmas & ‘Abd al-Jabbār’s Tathbīt (Prof. Connelly)