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Andrew Mark Henry
@andrewmarkhenry
Postdoc Fellow @ Center for Mind and Culture | scholar of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast | Visiting Scholar @ GWU
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Dec 1, 2021 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Hi, PhD in ancient Christianity here. Since apparently you want primary sources and not “unsourced opinion pieces,” I’ll try my best. But complex historical analysis requires much more space than Twitter allows, so I will include peer-reviewed articles at the end. Christians prob settled on Dec 25 for Xmas b/c they were obsessed with calculating Jesus’ conception, birth, and death based on the vague info in the Gospels. March 25 (the Roman vernal equinox) became popular for his crucifixion, Dec 25 (the winter solstice) for his birth.