2,000 year old Crucifixion victim unearthed
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https://www.irishpost.com/news/jesus-christ-discovery-155633
THE DISCOVERY of a 2,000-year-old crucifixion victim in northern Italy has provided one of the clearest indications yet as to how Jesus Christ died. According to the New Testament, Jesus was crucified by his Roman captors in Jerusalem. Crucifixion is believed to have been practiced by Romans against criminals and, in particular, revolutionaries like Jesus. However, archaeologists had previously only found one example of this cruel form of capital punishment in all of their examinations of various Roman burial sites. That situation changed though with the discovery of markings on the foot of a 2,000-year-old skeleton first uncovered during a 2006-2007 dig in the Gavello municipality of Northern Italy, just 25 miles from Venice. The skeleton was buried directly in the ground on his back without any of the grave goods traditionally found alongside burials of this period. Genetic and biological tests also indicated the man was below average height, of slim stature and was somewhere between 30 and 34 when he died. His small build suggests he may have been underfed - part of the punishment for executed prisoners at the time - while the lack of goods was commonplace among criminal burials. The most compelling discovery, however, was that of a depressed, unhealed fracture in the right heel bone. It indicated a metal nail was driven through it, either directly onto the wooden cross or into a footrest attached to a cross. "We found a particular lesion on the right calcaneus [heel bone] passing through the entire bone," study author Emanuela Gualdi, from the University of Ferrara, told Live Science. Prior to this new discovery, the only other time remains of a crucifixion victim were discovered came back in 1968, when a 7-inch-long nail was found to have been driven through the heel bone of a man found buried in a tomb in Jerusalem. |
Anonymous
| Fascinating, thanks, OP. |
Anonymous
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You are welcome, and it is fascinating.
I had no idea that although historians are knowledgeable about the reasons and process for the ancient punishment of Crucifixion, only one example has been found before this example. |
Anonymous
| Wow. Thanks OP. |
Anonymous
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"His small build suggests he may have been underfed - part of the punishment for executed prisoners at the time - while the lack of goods was commonplace among criminal burials."
A small build indicated being underfed over a long period during childhood, not being underfed during a short time as a prisoner. |
Anonymous
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It's clear the Irish Post would like you to believe they've found the body of Jesus. Here's a far more detailed article on the subject.
“The irregular burial context, lack of grave goods, short adult stature and possible evidence of torture (Martin and Harrod 2015) suggest a condition of captivity or slavery for the Gavello individual,” they write. https://www.timesofisrael.com/extremely-rare-archaeological-evidence-of-roman-crucifixion-uncovered-in-italy/ |
Anonymous
| Very interesting. |
Anonymous
Yes, I noticed that blooper too. |
Anonymous
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http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/extremely-rare-evidence-of-crucifixion-found-on-ancient-skeleton/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/aleteia.org/2018/06/04/rare-archaeological-evidence-of-ancient-roman-crucifixion-discovered-in-italian-remains/amp/ https://www.history.com/news/jesus-christ-death-crucifixion-archaeology https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/62727-jesus-roman-crucifixion-found.html How Jesus Died: Rare Evidence of Roman Crucifixion Found The body of a man buried in northern Italy 2,000 years ago shows signs that he died after being nailed to a wooden cross, the method used for the execution of Jesus described in the Christian Bible. All these links to same story. This man was unearthed in Northern Italy. That situation changed though with the discovery of markings on the foot of a 2,000-year-old skeleton first uncovered during a 2006-2007 dig in the Gavello municipality of Northern Italy, just 25 miles from Venice.- https://www.irishpost.com/news/jesus-christ-discovery-155633 Are you saying the Irish Post thinks Jesus was buried in Northern Italy? |
Anonymous
It’s not clear. This example was found in Italy and the Irish Post clearly reports that. Nobody in Ireland thinks Jesus was buried in Italy, and Christians believe Jesus arose from death. His body was not found in the borrowed tomb. |
Anonymous
| Yeah kinda counterproductive to say, "We found Jesus' body" if its your belief that he rose from the dead. |
Anonymous
People who deny and don’t understand the basics of the Bible and Christianity speak loudly here. Alas. |
Anonymous
No one is saying this is Jesus’ body. |
Anonymous
| Thousands of people were crucified. I've never understood exceptionalizing Jesus' suffering or "dying on the cross" as more significant than any of the many, many other people killed on the cross. Lots of people suffered an identical death. |
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHRIST'S BODY?
JOHN PIPER The earliest documents claim [the tomb was empty on Easter]: "When they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus" (Luke 24:3). And the enemies of Jesus confirmed it by claiming that the disciples had stolen the body (Matthew 28:13). The dead body of Jesus could not be found. There are four possible ways to account for this. 2.1 His foes stole the body. If they did (and they never claimed to have done so), they surely would have produced the body to stop the successful spread of the Christian faith in the very city where the crucifixion occurred. But they could not produce it. 2.2 His friends stole the body. This was an early rumor (Matthew 28:11-15). Is it probable? Could they have overcome the guards at the tomb? More important, would they have begun to preach with such authority that Jesus was raised, knowing that he was not? Would they have risked their lives and accepted beatings for something they knew was a fraud? 2.3 Jesus was not dead, but only unconscious when they laid him in the tomb. He awoke, removed the stone, overcame the soldiers, and vanished from history after a few meetings with his disciples in which he convinced them he was risen from the dead. Even the foes of Jesus did not try this line. He was obviously dead. The Romans saw to that. The stone could not be moved by one man from within who had just been stabbed in the side by a spear and spent six hours nailed to a cross. 2.4 God raised Jesus from the dead. This is what He said would happen. It is what the disciples said did happen. But as long as there is a remote possibility of explaining the resurrection naturalistically, modern people say we should not jump to a supernatural explanation. Is this reasonable? I don't think so. Of course, we don't want to be gullible. But neither do we want to reject the truth just because it's strange. We need to be aware that our commitments at this point are much affected by our preferences — either for the state of affairs that would arise from the truth of the resurrection, or for the state of affairs that would arise from the falsehood of the resurrection. If the message of Jesus has opened you to the reality of God and the need of forgiveness, for example, then anti-supernatural dogma might lose its power over your mind. Could it be that this openness is not prejudice for the resurrection, but freedom from prejudice against it? https://www.christianity.com/jesus/death-and-resurrection/resurrection/what-happened-to-the-christs-body.html |