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b. Rosh Hashanah 10b–11a.

Epiphanius is quoted in Talley, Origins, p. 98.

Augustine, Sermon 202.

De solstitia et aequinoctia conceptionis et nativitatis domini nostri iesu christi et iohannis baptistae.

There are other relevant texts for this element of argument, including Hippolytus and the (pseudo-Cyprianic) De pascha computus; see Talley, Origins, pp. 86, 90–91.

Tertullian, Adversus Iudaeos 8.

Louis Duchesne, Origines du culte Chrétien, 5th ed. (Paris: Thorin et Fontemoing, 1925), pp. 275–279; and Talley, Origins.

For example, Gregory of Nazianzen, Oratio 38; John Chrysostom, In Diem Natalem.

Prominent among these was Paul Ernst Jablonski; on the history of scholarship see especially Roll, “The Origins of Christmas,” pp. 277–283.

A gloss on a manuscript of Dionysius Bar Salibi, d. 1171; see Talley, Origins, pp. 101–102.