Word: crucifixions
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...Luke, who according to tradition was a doctor, offers an explanation, so it has generally been assumed that death came from the cumulative effect of the agony-thirst, heat, shock, and exhaustion. French Physician Jacques Bréhant, 59, who has been pursuing the elusive medical mystery of the Crucifixion for nearly 30 years, makes a more specific diagnosis: Jesus died of suffocation...
...feels it is necessary, but more often he exalts him. Says he in Love's Body: "There is only one political problem in our world today: the unification of mankind. That they may be one-ut unum sint. This is Christ's last prayer before the Crucifixion, which is also the last prayer of the late Pope John; it must be set beside Freud's prayer in Civilization and Its Discontents...
...news-reel-style, seeking truth among the halt, the healed, the healers, the doubters and the eyewitnesses involved in some ancient miracles. Occasionally, the film is as violent as history itself. The slaughter of the innocents looses an avalanche of pity and terror upon a sunny hillside, and the Crucifixion scene could scarcely be more graphic. These episodes are offset by the subtle lyricism of the flight into Egypt, when Mary turns for a last, lingering look at the humble comforts of her home...
...section of the Nile Valley, University of Chicago archaeologists recently unearthed a major manuscript discovery. Dug from the ruins of a 10th century Christian monastery on the Egyptian-Sudanese border, their find is an ancient Coptic prayer book containing a hymn to the Cross recited by Jesus before the Crucifixion and a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Christ and his disciples after the Resurrection...
...Nigeria. Its people were notorious for their practice of the black-magic juju; human sacrifices were common. And though the Portuguese navigators who discovered the realm in 1472 tried to convert the natives to Christianity, the only relict that stuck when they left was the concept and practice of crucifixion. Amidst a dark rain forest, Benin became a terrifying, slave-trading, yet advanced civilization centered in a city with 30 broad streets surrounded by ramparts ten feet high...