It started day-before-yesterday. I reached up to adjust the showerhead and next thing you know my neck seized up and has stayed stubbornly stiff ever since. We have tried cold, heat and over-the-counter medication but nothing seems to work. Time will eventually loosen it up. In the meantime, it is a good thing my chair at work reclines or I'd be staring at my desktop instead.
Today is Kara's last day of Pre-School. She went off this morning in kakhi shorts, a navy top and pigtails, sweet as could be. Lynn-nore has recently begun instituting a "yipee clipee" reward system at home. It must be working because I came in yesterday to find Kara cleaning her room in the hopes of a blue clipee. Also, Kara has recently learned a song listing the fruit of the Spirit, so she entertained me the other evening by hi-stepping atop her bed and singing it. Wonderful!
Lynn-nore herself is feeling huge. She's going on 34 weeks now, and, though I think she looks pregnant-cute, she describes herself as "a watemelon" or "an egg." Using some birthday money, it looks as if we will be able to purchase a new computer desk by the weekend. That will make her very happy, I'm sure, and get our computer up off the floor again.
As for me, I was happy to get an evening for research last night. Despite looking nearly straight-down, I brushed aside such annoyance and headed out the Sem. There was no one in the library, anyway. I needed to locate some detailed historical material on the practice and method of crucifixion in order to begin building the foundation for an article on certain aspects of Christ's death. You would be amazed both at the variety of cruelties that went by the description crucifixion, as well as the lack of materials that really address it from a completely historical angle. Apparently, too, they discovered a partial skeleton in Israel a few decades ago which still had nails through the bones of its ankles. The feet of the young man must have been nailed to either side of the pole, and a case could be made that he was upside down.
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Thom,
That sounds like very interesting research!
The only book I know on the practice of crucifixion is Martin Hengel's. Is his book still a standard? What other books are standard accounts now? And is the information in Hengel now a little dated in the light of further research?
Funny you should ask. The more recent periodical literature yielded next to nothing. There just haven't been any significant new sources on the subject since the skeleton I mentioned. One of the reasons for the lack of evidence could be that the nails from crucified victims were considered magical and so were highly valued. Hengel's book _Crucifixion_ (Fortress) is still considered the authority - and rightly so. It is slim because it is so densly packed with research.
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