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I watched an interview with Dr Zugibe on EWTN and it was really interesting. His book can also be bought from EWTN.
His view is that Mel Gibson’s movie, while portraying the agony and suffering of Jesus, was in fact way over the top, forensicly speaking, when it came to the scourging. If the amount of scourging in the movie had been done in real life Jesus not only would have been unable to carry the cross but would have been dead after the scourging so while what was done was an accurate reflection of how scourging was done and the type of scourge tools used, the duration and number times the scourging was done in the movie would have killed him before the crucifixtion.
Another interesting feature in his book and in the interview was that he has been able to prove that Jesus could have been nailed to the cross through the palms of his hands (and he showed why the past scientists experiments were wrong) which can bear the weight of a body up to 180 pounds without the feet being nailed, and up to 1000 pounds with the feet nailed to the cross. Very interesting.
His view is that Mel Gibson’s movie, while portraying the agony and suffering of Jesus, was in fact way over the top, forensicly speaking, when it came to the scourging. If the amount of scourging in the movie had been done in real life Jesus not only would have been unable to carry the cross but would have been dead after the scourging so while what was done was an accurate reflection of how scourging was done and the type of scourge tools used, the duration and number times the scourging was done in the movie would have killed him before the crucifixtion.
Another interesting feature in his book and in the interview was that he has been able to prove that Jesus could have been nailed to the cross through the palms of his hands (and he showed why the past scientists experiments were wrong) which can bear the weight of a body up to 180 pounds without the feet being nailed, and up to 1000 pounds with the feet nailed to the cross. Very interesting.