Sunday in Roman PaganismTEACH Services, Inc., 2003 - 272 pagini With most of the Christian world honoring Sunday as their day of worship, the question of its origin becomes important. Over the past hundred years much has been written about the use of the week among ancient pagan peoples. However, little has been done to compile such historical material into an easily accessible book for the general public. Robert Leo Odom for years has conducted special research on the Sabbath-Sunday question. In Sunday in Roman Paganism, he leads readers through the pages of history showing the rise of the planetary week and its day of the Sun in the heathenism of the Roman world during the early centuries of the Christian era. This book is not a capsulated history of Sunday as a church festival, but rather the history of the planetary week as it was known and used in the pagan world, and to show whether or not its day of the Sun was then regarded by pagans as being sacred to their Sun-god. |
Cuprins
The Pagan Planetary Week | 11 |
Is the Planetary Week of Babylonian Origin? | 20 |
The Planetary Week in Mesopotamia | 31 |
The Diffusion of Chaldean Astrology | 42 |
The Planetary Week in Rome | 54 |
The Planetary Week in the First Century B C | 69 |
The Planetary Week in the First Century A D | 81 |
The Planetary Week in the Second Century A D | 99 |
On the Lords Day of the Sun | 148 |
The Sunday of Sun Worship | 155 |
The First Civil Sunday Laws | 173 |
Sylvester and the Days of the Week | 193 |
The Planetary Week in the Philocalian Almanac | 205 |
The Power Behind the Planetary Week | 225 |
AppendixThe Teutonic Pagan Week | 251 |
Bibliography | 260 |
The Planetary Week in the Third Century A D | 110 |
The Sun the Lord of the Roman Empire | 125 |
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Sunday in Roman Paganism: A History of the Planetary Week and Its "day of ... Robert Leo Odom Vizualizare fragmente - 1944 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
ancient Ante-Nicene Fathers Antiquities Apollo Apollonius apostles astrological Augustus author's translation Baal Babylonian bishop Caesar calendar called the day Celsus Chaldean chap Christ Christian church Constantine Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum cult Cumont day of Saturn deities Dio Cassius divine earth ecclesiastical emperor Encyclopaedia of Religion Eusebius feria festival G. P. Putnam's Sons Gnostic Greek Harran heathen heaven hour Ibid inscription Invincible Sun J. P. Migne Jerusalem Jewish Jews Josephus Jupiter Latin Loeb Classical Library Lord Lord's day Mandaeans MARS SUN VEN Mercury Mithra Mithraic Mithraism month MOON SAT JUP Nicene and Post-Nicene observance pagan pagan week Patrologia Graeca Patrologia Latina Persian Philocalian planetary gods planetary week Post-Nicene Fathers Religion and Ethics religious Roman Empire Rome sacred Saturn says second century A. D. Septizonium seven days seven planetary seven planets Solis standard English translation Sun worship Sun-god Sunday sunrise Sylvester temple Tertullian tion unto Venus writer zodiac