Classes
The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
The Seder That Wasn't There
Why Does Easter Hop?
The Exodus: Memory, Not Memoir
The Seder Now: Haggadah, Home, and Jewish Meaning
Resurrection: One Event, Four Gospels
The Passover of Christ
Pascha Before Easter
Lent and the Three Days
Eggs, Witches, and Sunrise Services
Foundations & Further Reading
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The Ancient Origins of the Easter Bunny
Smithsonian Magazine · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
Heidelberg University / Internet Archive · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
Easter - Holy Week and Easter traditions
Encyclopædia Britannica · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
The Easter Bunny - A Cultural History
GRIN Verlag · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
Bede: The Reckoning of Time - Chapter 15
Internet Medieval Sourcebook · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons
Oxford University Press (Philip A. Shaw) · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
Jacob Grimm / Internet Archive · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
University of Chicago Press (Ronald Hutton) · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
Easter Eggs and Their Tradition
Orthodox Church in America · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
The Egg in Christianity and Folklore
Academia.edu (Andrew Louth) · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
The Easter Egg: A Cultural History
Venetia Newall (Folklore, Vol. 82, No. 1, 1971) · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
Food and Feast in Medieval England
Cambridge University Press (Peter Hammond) · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
Eostre (Article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
Oxford University Press · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
Bloomsbury (Ronald Hutton) · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
Robert Graves: The White Goddess revisited
The Guardian · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History
Cambridge University Press (Mircea Eliade, with modern critiques) · Background for Class 1: The Bunny That Wasn't Pagan
Eusebius, Church History, Book 5, chapters 23-25
Christian Classics Ethereal Library · Background for Class 3: Why Does Easter Hop?
Easter, Date of (Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church)
Oxford University Press · Background for Class 3: Why Does Easter Hop?
The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era by Alden A. Mosshammer
Oxford University Press · Background for Class 3: Why Does Easter Hop?
Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar
Encyclopaedia Britannica · Background for Class 3: Why Does Easter Hop?
Towards a Common Date of Easter (World Council of Churches, 1997)
World Council of Churches · Background for Class 3: Why Does Easter Hop?
Melito of Sardis, On the Pascha
Early Christian Writings · Background for Class 3: Why Does Easter Hop?
Eusebius, Church History, Book 7, chapter 32
Christian Classics Ethereal Library · Background for Class 3: Why Does Easter Hop?
The British Museum · Background for Class 4: The Exodus: Memory, Not Memoir