(December 11, 2021 at 5:24 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote:(December 11, 2021 at 5:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Cromwell is known far and wide for completely failing to be an American.
Christians were celebrating the birth of Jesus in late December about a century and a half before Aurelian introduced the festival of Sol Invictus. Everyone seems to get this backwards - a Roman Emperor created a pagan holiday to compete with Christmas, not the other way round.
Boru
Fascinating. Another belief shattered.
I've always thought December 25 is the winter solstice. I've also always thought Jesus was probably born in spring. Have no idea where I learned all that so it might be wrong too.
The solstice typically occurs on 21 December.
A Greek historian (whose name escapes me just now) of the period calculated that Jesus was conceived in March and born in December. If I remember rightly, it goes something like this:
-John the Baptist was conceived on Yom Kippur, which typically occurs in October.
-JtB is six months older than Jesus.
-Therefore, Jesus would have to have been conceived in March.
-March to December is nine months.
Boru
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