Thursday, June 24, 2010

Misleading headline of the week

MISLEADING HEADLINE OF THE WEEK, in The Telegraph:
Jesus did not die on cross, says scholar
This refers, not to some Neo-Docetist or daft Schonfieldian interpretation of the crucifixion, but rather to the new doctoral dissertation by Gunnar Samuelsson which argues that the ancient sources actually tell us very little about the mechanics of crucifixion and that the reality (while doubtless as unpleasant as we imagine) may have been quite different from our mental picture and the traditional artistic representations.