that during the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, the Roman soldiers felt such hatred toward the Jews that they crucified a multitude of them in various postures.[4] Crucifixion was a very torturous death. In the first century B.C., Cicero calls it the most horrendous torture.[5] So hideous was the act of crucifixion upon a man that he also writes that “the very word ‘cross’ should be far removed not only from the person of a Roman citizen but from his thoughts, his eyes and his ears.”[6] Tacitus in