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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoHippolytus of Rome… Africanus
Looks like this article summarizes that.
So I guess that implies that it was actually the other way around, that Sol Invictus’ birthday was selected to coincide w/ Jesus’ birthday.
wraith@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Yeah, more or less. Spitballing, butit’s probably still more related to the Sun. The 25th would’ve been on of the first days studious Romans could tell the daytime was growing longer.
This whole period in Roman History is extremely cool. Maybe not to live in though lol.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I really need to pick up some books about early Christianity and its relationship to the Roman Empire. Certainly cool history.
wraith@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
My first rec would be Rod Bennett’s The Early Church in Her Own Words. It’s a good starting point that grounds you in what the early authors of Christianity were thinking and discussing.