Biblical Views: Images of Crucifixion: Fresh Evidence

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The Easter season is a time of year when Christians reflect on the death, burial, resurrection and post-mortem appearances of Jesus. Good Friday, as it is called, focuses specifically on the death of Jesus, which in my view likely transpired during the Passover season in April 30 A.D. Much of how Christians view, and think about, the crucifixion of Jesus comes from the iconography and representation of the event in later Christian art, none of which dates to the first century of the Christian era. There are, however, three known images of crucifixion roughly contemporary with when Jesus lived. […]

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Footnotes

See Vassilios Tzaferis, “Crucifixion—The Archaeological Evidence,” BAR 11:01.

See Robert A. Wild, “The Shroud of Turin—Probably the Work of a 14th-Century Artist or Forger,” BAR, March/April 1984.

Endnotes

There was an interesting presentation at the annual national SBL meeting in Chicago in November 2012 about this very image by Felicity Harley-McGowan of Melbourne University, Australia.

See Ben Witherington, New Testament History (Baker, 2003), pp. 155–159.

See Witherington, New Testament History, pp. 155–159.