Word: sacrum
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...Thiede's findings has intriguing implications. In three places on the Magdalen Papyrus, the name of Jesus is written as KS, an abbreviation of the Greek word Kyrios, or Lord. Thiede contends that this shorthand is proof that early Christians considered Jesus a nomen sacrum (sacred name), much the way devout Jews emphasized the holiness of God's name by shortening it to the tetragrammaton YHWH. Thus the perception of Jesus as divine was not a later development of Christian faith but a firm belief of the early church...
...because "it took a little more digging than usual," according to Weisbrod, to reach the disk sandwiched between the sacrum and vertebrae, the aggravated tissue from the surgery extended Weisbrod's recovery period to more than three weeks...