Iconography of Jesus’ crucifixion often depicts His wrists or hands nailed to the cross — which scholars say would have been unlikely to hold His weight — or a single nail driven through the ...

Apparently neither the offended parishioners nor Andrew knows that the iconography of the crucifix in question is an example of perfectly normal Byzantine-style depictions of the Crucifixion. The ...

Although Christian iconography widely depicts Jesus as having been ... some scholars have argued the original Biblical texts never actually mention crucifixion, let alone nails, in relation ...

The crucifixion of Jesus is one of the most illustrated events in human history.. For centuries, artists have reimagined it as a form of remembrance and as a means to convey the story of brutality ...

It wasn’t just the heavens weeping. A jaw-dropping discovery by NASA may lend cosmic credibility to one of the Bible’s most dramatic moments — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — and the ...

What differentiates the crucifixion Minion memes, however, ... The use of mainstream cultural iconography in proselytization is not at all uncommon on social media.

A radical rethinking of the crucifixion It was an Irish priest at St. Paul’s Catholic Cathedral in Lagos who inspired the works now on display at the Smithsonian.

What archaeology can—and can’t—tell us about Jesus’ crucifixion. From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don ...

The single’s cover art features a re-creation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, with Nas playing the role of Jesus. This appears to have rubbed some people the wrong way, and now Lil Nas X has ...

The image of a Black man trudging toward his crucifixion “shakes us out of the anesthetized version of that,” says David Oyelowo, who plays John the Baptist and is himself a devout Christian.

It wasn’t just the heavens weeping. A jaw-dropping discovery by NASA may lend cosmic credibility to one of the Bible’s most dramatic moments — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — and the ...