RS235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Wild Beasts, Egalitarianism, Pilates
17 Mar 2015
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Crucifixion was a popular widespread humiliated form of torture to deter people from doing bad crimes, imposed by officials, and often never had a burial service. There were thousands of people crucified around jerusalem in the first century alone, have we found only a single skeleton, and that, of course, preserved in an ossuary. Crucifixion was horrible because inhuman cruelty or their public dishonor, but the fact that there might be nothing left to bury at the end. Emphasize that roman crucifixion was state terrorism; that its function was to deter resistance or revolt, especially among the lower classes; and that the body was usually left on the cross to be consumed eventually by the wild beasts. No wonder we have found only one body from all those thousands crucified around jerusalem in that single century. Passover celebrated the deliverance of the jews from bondage in egypt and their departure to conquer the promised land.
