Crucifixion

Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death.^[1]^[2] It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthaginians, and Romans,^[1] among others. Crucifixion has been used in some countries as recently as the early 20th century.^[3]

The crucifixion of Jesus is central to Christianity,^[1] and the cross (sometimes depicting Jesus nailed to it) is the main religious symbol for many Christian churches.

^ ^a ^b ^c Granger Cook, John (2018). "Cross/Crucifixion". In Hunter, David G.; van Geest, Paul J. J.; Lietaert Peerbolte, Bert Jan (eds.). Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. doi:10.1163/2589-7993_EECO_SIM_00000808. ISSN 2589-7993.
^ [1]Josephus. The Jewish War. 5.11.1., Perseus Project BJ5.11.1, .
^ Roger Bourke, Prisoners of the Japanese: Literary imagination and the prisoner-of-war experience (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2006), Chapter 2 "A Town Like Alice and the prisoner of war as Christ-figure", pp. 30–65.

[EECO_2018-1] Granger Cook, John (2018). "Cross/Crucifixion". In Hunter, David G.; van Geest, Paul J. J.; Lietaert Peerbolte, Bert Jan (eds.). Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. doi:10.1163/2589-7993_EECO_SIM_00000808. ISSN 2589-7993.

[josephus-jewishwars-5.11.1-2] [1]Josephus. The Jewish War. 5.11.1., Perseus Project BJ5.11.1, .

[3] Roger Bourke, Prisoners of the Japanese: Literary imagination and the prisoner-of-war experience (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2006), Chapter 2 "A Town Like Alice and the prisoner of war as Christ-figure", pp. 30–65.

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