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Crucifixion: In the Ancient World and the Folly of the Message of the Cross is unavailable, but you can change that!

In a comprehensive and detailed survey on its remarkably widespread employment in the Roman Empire, Dr. Hengel examines the way in which “the most vile death of the cross” was regarded in the Greek-speaking world and particularly in Roman-occupied Palestine. His conclusions bring out more starkly than ever the offensiveness of the Christian message: Jesus not only died an unspeakably cruel...

went with it, can hardly be appreciated by modern man. 7. In Roman times, crucifixion was practised above all on dangerous criminals and members of the lowest classes. These were primarily people who had been outlawed from society or slaves who on the whole had no rights, in other words, groups whose development had to be suppressed by all possible means to safeguard law and order in the state. Because large strata of the population welcomed the security and the world-wide peace which the empire
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