tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222789180852003747.post5944424820884529152..comments2023-07-05T18:10:09.852+08:00Comments on New Hope for Taipei 臺北的希望: Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life 永生的源頭Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222789180852003747.post-81592556092590479342008-03-24T10:37:00.000+08:002008-03-24T10:37:00.000+08:00At church, someone asked a question about the wher...At church, someone asked a question about the where the name "Easter" comes from.<BR/>-----------------------------------------<BR/>This article is from Webster's dictionary in the DVD of the Encyclopedia Britannica 2005 edition.<BR/><BR/>Latin Pascha , Greek Pascha principal festivalof the Christian church that celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. The earliest recorded observance of an Easter celebration comes from the 2nd century, though the commemoration of Jesus' Resurrection probably occurred earlier.<BR/><BR/>The English word Easter, which parallels the German word Ostern, is of uncertain origin. One view, expounded by the Venerable Bede in the 8th century, was that it derived from Eostre, or Eostrae, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility. This view presumes—asdoes the view associating the origin of Christmas on December 25 with pagan celebrations of the winter equinox—that Christians appropriated pagan names and holidays for their highest festivals. Given the determination with which Christians combated all forms of paganism, this appears a rather dubious presumption. There is now widespread consensus that the word derives from the Christian designation of Easter week as in albis, a Latin phrase that was understood as the plural of alba (“dawn”) and became eostarum in Old High German, the precursor of the modern German and English term. The Latin and Greek pascha (“Passover”) provides the root for Pâcques, the French word for Easter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com