Another thing I just thought of now, in considering LS’s question and maybe yours, is that the Crucifixion may not have been as we popularly imagine.
Consider the negative image of the Shroud again: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin#/media/File%3AFull_length_negatives_of_the_shroud_of_Turin.jpg
Here we can see the exit wound of the nail on the back of the left hand is just below the palm of the hand, into (or really through) what we may call the “wrist” today.
I was just thinking though, it’s possible that the nail was driven through, on the front of the hand, through the palm, but driven through in an almost transversal fashion so as to be at an angle with respect to the palm so it exited near the base of the hand (or at the wrist).
So when He was hanging on the Cross it would appear the nails were in His hands but in actuality they entered there and exited through the wrist. This would (maybe?) provide the support needed to support His weight on the Cross (as the nail would be through and by the stronger bones of the wrist), as well as be consistent with the Biblical account of the nails being “through the hands” as well as consistent with future Stigmata reports.
Just something to consider maybe?
Yad in Hebrew, generally translated as "hand," actually includes the forearm as well as the hand.
Something else I’ve thought about is this: while we know Alexander crucified enemies, I have not researched the punishment of crucifixion to find out how universal it was prior to Alexander.
My point is, does anyone find it odd that the Old Testament prophets would write about this form of punishment when, in fact, in their world stoning was the typical means of capital punishment? In other words, it seems to add further weight to the prophecy that Jesus was killed by a method that the OT prophets of the day had very little experience with . . . or am I missing something?
