Sunday in Roman paganism
Subtitle: a history 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
By: by Robert Leo Odom
Series: Ministerial Association of Seventh-day Adventists. Ministerial reading course selection for 1944
Publisher: Review and Herald
Published: 1944
Place of publication: Takoma Park, Washington, D. C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Week; Sunday; Religion
Notes: Bibliography: p. 260-272.
Table of contents: title: 1. The pagan planetary week; title: 2. Is the planetary week of Babylonian origin?; title: 3. The planetary week in Mesopotamia; title: 4. The diffusion of Chaldean astrology; title: 5. The planetary week in Rome; title: 6. The planetary week in the first century B.C.; title: 7.The planetary week in the first century A.D.; title: 8. The planetary week in the second century A.D.; title: 9. The planetary week in the third century A.D.; title: 10. "The sun, the Lord of the Roman empire"; title: 11. "On the Lord's Day of the Sun"; title: 12. The Sunday of sun worship; title: 13. The first civil Sunday laws; title: 14. Sylvester and the days of the week; title: 15. The planetary week in the Philocalian almanac; title: 16. The power behind the planetary week; title: Appendix: the Teutonic pagan week.