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Huratdo: The Staurogram In Early Christian Manuscripts

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

While looking up a little information on Larry Hurtado’s upcoming book The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins I came across what seems to be an essay by Huratdo entitled The Staurogram In Early Christian Manuscripts: The Earliest Visual Reference To The Crucified Jesus? from New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts And Their World — […]

Crucifixion Medical Study Followup

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

Matthew Maslen, one of the authors a study called “Medical theories on the cause of death in crucifixion” commented on my earlier post about the study. After re-reading my comments I realize I came off a bit hard on his cohort Dr. Mitchell — when really my annoyance was mostly centered on the press […]

Crucifixion images ‘misleading’?

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

I read a very short (in fact only a paragraph) story on The Times today about Crucifixion.
Crucifixion images ‘misleading’
Traditional images of the method of crucifixion suffered by Jesus are likely to be wrong, researchers from Imperial College, London, said in a study that casts doubt on both the cause of Jesus’s death and on precisely […]