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Home > Resources > Easter

Easter

Articles and writings on the origins and evolution of the Easter holiday.
And there was a Cry in Egypt by Arthur Hacker

Articles: (click to view)

  • “Easter” from Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • “The Profound Connection Between Easter and Passover” by R. R. Reno
  • “The Ancient Math That Sets the Date of Easter and Passover” by Robinson Meyer
  • “When Easter and Passover Overlap” with Linda Wertheimer and Andrew McGowan
  • “Anno Domini: Computational Analysis, Antisemitism, and the Early Christian Debate Over Easter” by Sarah E. Bond
  • “Why are there two Easters?” at BBC Newsround
  • “When Jesus Celebrated Passover” by Paula Fredriksen
  • “Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder?” by the Biblical Archaeology Society
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