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As an Easter-themed treat, I have blogged on the crucifixion of trans people. Enjoy 
http://artemisia.scot/blog/2025/04/18/crucifixion-of-trans-people/
#GoodFriday: a day to meditate on evil & sacrifice & the price good ppl pay for following #conscience. Jesus' #crucifixion is an #archetype of power-over, of #religiousauthority in league w/ #empire to torture & kill those speaking out about deeper values & visions of society. https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/18/good-friday-2025/
Today's pick: Crucifixion (1503) - Lucas Cranach the Elder. #art #Cranach #Mary #Crucifixion #JohnTheEvangelist
A thought for this Holy Week.
Crucifixion was not about execution; not really. There are much easier ways to accomplish that. It isn't even about torture, though it was torturous.
Crucifixion is a means of shaming someone into oblivion. It is an extreme form of bullying: one in which the Roman goons assert dominance by publicly degrading their victim to death.
There are several clues in the gospel stories that the shame of crucifixion was far worse than we imagine.
I say this not to dwell on suffering. But if you have suffered shame and degradation; if you have been disposed of and mocked and your reputation destroyed; you are in the best of company. They did this to Jesus. And the shaming of this righteous man is turned right back on his bullies in the crucifixion. The mirror Jesus holds up to our lives, that we might see ourselves more truly, now casts that shame back on them.
God is the bullied one, and the one who stands against all bullies. He endures even this for our sake; and in the end, his Father raises him from the grave to new life. He is vindicated. And in him, so are you.
Die Generalprobe gestern lief super. Im Tenor sind wir zu viert. Drei intensive Stunden. War ganz schön erschöpft. Das wird ein eindrucksvolles #Konzert an #Karfreitag. Ruppels #Crucifixion steht auf dem Programm. Posaune und Kontrabass passen sehr gut, habe wir gestern das erste Mal zusammen gehört
Weitere Infos zum Konzert der Bad Schwalbacher Kantorei am 18.04.2025, 15 Uhr in der Reformationskirche: https://badschwalbach.ekhn.de/termine/einzelansicht-event/events/konzert-zur-todesstunde-jesu-1.html
It's strange to many people that the horrific death by #crucifixion of #Jesus is so important to #Christian belief. Here are some of my thoughts on this, in a #sermon for Palm/Passion Sunday in 2019. It's based on the #lectionary texts for this coming Sunday
#PalmSunday
#PassionSunday
https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/2022/04/07/the-strange-power-of-the-cross-a-sermon-for-palm-passion-sunday/
Thank you to a buyer in Massachusetts for choosing my work! A 12x8 framed print is on its way to its new home. Your support means so much! 
Prints available on Pixels: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/i-met-jesus-on-the-slea-head-road-in-ireland-mark-e-tisdale.html
@warandpeas La crucifixion de JC est le résultat d'un contexte historique et socio-culturel complexe. Jésus, considéré comme un dissident juif, menaçait l'ordre établi par l'Empire romain, ce qui a suscité la peur des autorités. Culturalement, sa mort coïncide avec la Pâque juive, une fête symbolisant la libération, ce qui a amplifié la tension. Les dynamiques de pouvoir, les manipulations politiques et les croyances religieuses ont conduit à sa condamnation. #Jésus #Histoire #Crucifixion 
Members of the cooperative “The Holy Men” hold a statue of Jesus #Christ during the reenactment of the #crucifixion during the Good Friday procession, in Alangasi, #Ecuador, March 29. REUTERS/Karen Toro
Octávio Araújo (Brazilian, 1926–2015), Cristo favelado (Slum Christ), 1950. Oil on canvas, 64 × 53 cm. Collection of the Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Afro-Brasileiros (IPEAFRO), Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Victoria Emily Jones, at Afro-Atlantic Histories at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2022. #arthistory #art #crucifixion
From Victoria Emily Jones, Art & Theology, July 5, 2022: “Artist Octávio Araújo entered this painting in the Black Christ contest held in 1955 by the Teatro Experimental do Negro (Black
Experimental Theater) in Rio de Janeiro (I mentioned this contest previously in relation to another submission, a painting by Djanira da Motta e Silva). It shows Christ crucified in a Brazilian favela, his Roman tormentors replaced with military police officers, perpetrators of state-sanctioned violence against the nation's Black people.”
In recognition of this season's religious co-opting of a celestial event to justify its mumbo-jumbo, here's a thread of Easter-related bits I've picked up along the cyber highway.
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From #Gavello in northern #Italy, remains of an isolated #Roman burial excavated in 2007 have been reported showing a particular lesion on the foot - which has been discussed as possibly indicating a #crucifixion too:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2019/12/23/heel-bone-from-italy-is-only-second-example-of-crucifixion-ever-found by @killgrove
And here’s another, bit more detailed summary of the #GivatHaMivtar find and the discovery of these possible #crucifixion remains from #Jerusalem (V. Tzaferis, BibArch 11(1), 1985):
https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/crucifixion-the-archaeological-evidence
Among the rare archaeological evidence of an actual #crucifixion is the heel bone (with a #nail) of a man named #Yehohanan (today at Israel Museum) who died in the 1st century AD - and whose burial was found at Giv'at ha-Mivtar, East #Jerusalem in 1968:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-a-stone-box-a-rare-trace-of-crucifixion
#Nails may have been removed when delinquents were deposited. But without nails, observation of evidence for #crucifixion becomes less likely.
Here's an interesting study on "The Use of Nails" in this context (J. C. Robison, Studia Antiqua 2(1), 2002):
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=studiaantiqua
Or maybe not so surprisingly. Our image of #crucifixion surely is much influenced by all those dramatic depictions from art history to Hollywood. - The lack of related finds of nail-pierced bones may well just indicate other forms of actual #fixture of delinquents to the cross.
#Crucifixion as punishment is predating even #Roman times and goes back as far as to the Phoenicians, Assyrians, and Persians.
In ancient Rome it was mostly imposed on slaves or exercised as political punishment, e.g. for insurrectionist - but usually not against Roman citizens.
It's #GoodFriday, the day commemorating the #crucifixion of #Jesus which, according Christian tradition, took place in 1st ct. AD Judea (then a #Roman province).
While there are historic sources about this punishment method, archaeological evidence is scarce.
How about some #EasterArchaeology 
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