RE: Did ancient egypt have crucifiction?
October 20, 2013 at 1:21 am
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2013 at 1:26 am by Anomalocaris.)
(October 20, 2013 at 12:51 am)Aractus Wrote:(September 24, 2013 at 7:35 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: Crucifixtion use to be more wide spread than you think.I'm glad to see that atheists are no longer trying to claim that crucifixion never happened!
Even in medieval Japan, although to be fair, it was only used there for christians for the purpose of mocking them.
There were actually many different methods of crucifixion, and the way in which it was used by the Romans at the time of Christ was to nail the feet together (one nail through both feet), and nail the wrists as well with the arms folded over the crossbeam. There was also a piece of wood for a "seat" that the executed person would have to push up on their legs to use. They also used rope in place of nails (although I'm not exactly sure how of if it would work for the feet, but it would certainly work fine for the arms), or also possibly in addition to nails.
Crucifixion of slaves who killed their masters and of particularly despised rebels against the emperor definitely happened. Crucifixion of any one name Jesus? We don't know for certain but given how many jesi there had been in the centuries, almost certainly a few manage to become slaves killers of their masters, or rebels that particularly ticked off the Romans and end up on the cross
As to crucifixion of some son of god? Never happened. There was never a god.
As to exactly how the Romans crucified people, don't be so sure. Lots of people took fiendish delight in speculating with air of certainty how the Romans must have done it. But the only potentially direct archeological evidence we have is one single heel bone with and iron nail in it. Josephus stated the Romans sometimes amused themselves by crucifying their victims in all sorts inventive postures.