crucifixion burials (bounce)
Ed Tyler etyler@truman.edu
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 07:34:41 -0600 (00918675281, 4.1.19990210072645.00b26eb0@pop.truman.edu)
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At 05:00 PM 2/9/99 -0500, JAlw@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 99-02-09 14:21:14 EST, you write:
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> The documentary evidence is that nailing was the common method.
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>Joe Alward:
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>None of the great many different accounts of crucifixion presented by Filley,
>Crea, and you in the past week has made any reference to a standard practice.
>Did you have some other "documentary evidence" in mind? If so, what is it?
Ed
Obviously, Joe, there was no "standard practice," of crucifixion, since
Josephus mentions that the Roman soldiers amused themselves by nailing their
victims up in different positions. The fact that tying is mentioned as an
exception the one time out of dozens its mentioned should I think be quite
sufficient evidence.
You need to take a break and read Hengel, Sloyan, and some of the other
researchers we've tried to steer you to. Your sudden fascination with the
notion that victims of crucifixion were tied to their crosses seems to be the
product of Monty Python's Life of Brian. I don't see any reason to address it
further unless you can provide some evidence that it was used wisely enough to
have a statistically significant influence on archeological samples.
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At 05:00 PM 2/9/99 -0500, JAlw@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 99-02-09 14:21:14 EST, you write:
>
><<
> Ed
>
> The documentary evidence is that nailing was the common
method.
>
> >>
>=============
>Joe Alward:
>
>None of the great many different accounts of crucifixion presented by
Filley,
>Crea, and you in the past week has made any reference to a standard
practice.
>Did you have some other "documentary evidence" in
mind? If so, what is it?
Ed
Obviously, Joe, there was no "standard practice," of
crucifixion, since Josephus mentions that the Roman soldiers amused
themselves by nailing their victims up in different positions. The
fact that tying is mentioned as an exception the one time out of dozens
its mentioned should I think be quite sufficient evidence.
You need to take a break and read Hengel, Sloyan, and some of the other
researchers we've tried to steer you to. Your sudden fascination
with the notion that victims of crucifixion were tied to their crosses
seems to be the product of Monty Python's Life of Brian. I
don't see any reason to address it further unless you can provide some
evidence that it was used wisely enough to have a statistically
significant influence on archeological samples.