2. Christmas is not Pagan (History)
December 16, 2016
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This video looks at the history of Christmas and argues there is no evidence it comes from paganism.
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings - Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Structure in The Wisdom of Amenemope and Proverbs - Paul Overland
Christianizing the Roman Empire - Ramsay MacMullen
Pagan City and Christian Capital: Rome in the Fourth Century - John R Curran
Rome - Marcia B. Hall
The Philocalian Calendar
The Origins of the Liturgical Year - Thomas J. Talley
Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, and the Origins of Christmas - Steven Hijmans
The Sun Which Did Not Rise In the East -Steven Hijmans
"Christmas"in "The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought - Karen B. Westerfield Tucker
Saturnalia Book - Macrobius
Roman Festivals in the Greek East - Fritz Graf
Classical World, Volume 15 - John Raymond
Homily on the Date of Christmas -John Chrysostom
fourthcentury.com/christmas-sermon
Toward the Origins of Christmas - Susan K. Roll
The interpretation by Hippolytus of the Visions of Daniel - Hippolytus of Rome
The Christmas Tree - Fr. William P. Saunders
Christmas: A Candid History - Bruce David Forbes
The Children's Friend (1821)
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