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The History of the Holidays
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Bill Petro, your friendly neighborhood
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Bill Petro earned his degree in History at the University of California,
Berkeley. He studied Ancient History as well as a comprehensive study of
Christian and early Jewish History. His History thesis was on 19th century American
Evangelicalism. He has done post-graduate work in History and has been studying History for thirty years. He began writing articles on History and distributing them electronically in 1984.
A Bibliography of some of the sources appears here
Most current articles:
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| December
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| January
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| March
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| April
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| May
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| June
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| July
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| The Date from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| The Season from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| The Year from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| The Star from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| The Magi from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| Herod from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| Christmas Traditions |
| Santa Lucia |
| The Creche |
| The Poinsettia |
| Sacred Oratorio |
| Christmas Music |
| Solstice |
| The Tree |
| Santa Claus |
| A Visit |
| A Christmas Carol excerpts from Prof. Gerhard Rempel, Lectures in Western Civilization, Western New England College. |
| Augustus from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| Epiphany |
| Rosh HaShana |
| Yom Kippur |
| Chanukah |
| Passover |
| Mardi Gras |
| Ash Wednesday |
| Easter |
| Historical Climate from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| Palm Sunday from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| Pontius Pilate from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| Herod from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| The Sanhedrin from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| Maundy Thursday |
| The Trial from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| Good Friday from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| The Players from Paul L. Maier's In the Fullness of Time |
| J.S. Bach |
| Movie Review: The Passion of the Christ |
| Memorial at Dachau |
| Amazing Grace |
| Movie Review: Lord of the Rings |
| Veterans Day: a tribute |
| 9-11-01: America Tested |
| 9-11-02: One Year On |
| Jerusalem 1 |
| Jerusalem 2 |
| Jerusalem 3 |
| Star Trek |
| Star Trek, redux |
| MACH 1 |
| Promise Keepers |
| Promise Keepers 97 - Washington D.C. "Stand in the Gap" |
| Appendix |
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