Fun fact: the actual death from crucifiction was suffocation. Once the victim loses the strength to hold themselves up, the slouch puts some sort of stress on their lungs. There was an instance of the Romans not breaking someone’s legs (which suggests that maybe that was part of the practice) so they would suffer longer. I don’t remember where that info came from, but I’ve been reading lots of books about the first 200 years of christianity for about 20 months.
I’m an atheist, of course, just also a history nerd.
One other side note: around 1999, I wanted to make a “student” film (I was barely a student) about the life and times of christ. He’d fuck up and raise Lazarus as a zombie in one of the scenes. Never made it.
Your film idea makes me think you’d enjoy the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a book in the apocrypha starring Mary teaching baby Jesus not to kill his classmates for being dumb kids.
I just opened the wiki article to read next. That brief description sounds familiar. I might have read about that in Elaine Pagel’s book, The Gnostic Gospels.
Fun fact: the actual death from crucifiction was suffocation. Once the victim loses the strength to hold themselves up, the slouch puts some sort of stress on their lungs. There was an instance of the Romans not breaking someone’s legs (which suggests that maybe that was part of the practice) so they would suffer longer. I don’t remember where that info came from, but I’ve been reading lots of books about the first 200 years of christianity for about 20 months.
I’m an atheist, of course, just also a history nerd.
One other side note: around 1999, I wanted to make a “student” film (I was barely a student) about the life and times of christ. He’d fuck up and raise Lazarus as a zombie in one of the scenes. Never made it.
Your film idea makes me think you’d enjoy the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a book in the apocrypha starring Mary teaching baby Jesus not to kill his classmates for being dumb kids.
I just opened the wiki article to read next. That brief description sounds familiar. I might have read about that in Elaine Pagel’s book, The Gnostic Gospels.
It’s straight up like a sitcom in parts. Probably for the best that it never made it into the canon bible though.
Mad TV did one where the terminator went back to protect Jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBlGup9uCwU
Would you recommend any of the books you’ve been reading about the era?
The Passover Plot, How Jesus Became God, Jesus the Jew. It’s been surprisingly fun.