Word: crucifixions
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...average height for the period (5 ft. 5 in.), had delicate, pleasing features that seemed to approach the Hellenistic ideal, probably wore a beard, and apparently had never performed any really arduous labor-indicating his possible upper-class origins. Except for the injuries inflicted during his crucifixion, he seemed to have been in exceptionally fine health. His only deformities were a slight cleft palate and a barely perceptible asymmetry of the skull, possibly a sign of a difficult birth...
First Evidence. Yehohanan's death was quickly forgotten. No documents have ever been found that record his crime or recall his crucifixion. Yet, after nearly 2,000 years, he has now suddenly and sensationally re-emerged from the dustbins of history. Last week Israeli archaeologists announced that they had identified the remains of the unfortunate young man and found clear evidence of his grisly execution...
...Israeli scholars, who studied the find for more than two years before making their announcement, were understandably cautious. What they uncovered and authenticated is the first firm physical evidence of an actual crucifixion in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although history records that this form of punishment was continued by the Romans until the 4th century A.D. (when it was finally outlawed by the Emperor Constantine I, who legalized Christianity in the empire), the only previous physical evidence of crucifixion was extremely tenuous. It consisted of a few bones, excavated in Italy and Rumania, containing holes in the forearms and heels...
...thrust a lance into his side. Both the archaeologists and biblical scholars were understandably concerned. Any suggestion, however farfetched, that the body was that of Jesus would challenge two of Christianity's central beliefs: the Resurrection, the doctrine that Christ rose from the dead three days after the Crucifixion; and the Ascension, which holds that Jesus ascended bodily into heaven 40 days later...
...Superstar has a fundamental aura of reverence; Christ's last words are verbatim from the Bible, and the last song in Superstar, an instrumental piece that follows "The Crucifixion," is titled "John Nineteen Forty-One." a reference to the point in John's Gospel where the narrative describing the discovery of Christ's resurrection begins. But it has a few half-concealed implications that are wide-eyed blasphemy for those who see the Last Supper, for instance, as a sacred event. Webber and Rice, with a neat bit of circular logic and some imaginative rewriting, transform the Last Supper into...