[Alberta's Child]

I've got one minor gripe with this film already -- based even just on what I've seen in this trailer.

On a physiological level, the film looks to be factually incorrect. It shows the soldiers driving a nail into the palm of Jesus' hand. In contrast, the image on the Shroud of Turin shows nail wounds in the wrists, not in the palms of the hand. Scientists who have examined the Shroud have used this seemingly minor detail as evidence of the Shroud's authenticity -- in order to support the weight of an adult human body, a nail must be driven through the wrist between the radius and ulna bones, mot through the palm.

[LS]

You are exactly right. There is a scholarly article on crucifixion in Roman times. Not only did they put the spike between the two bones in the wrist, but they also used a flat piece of wood as a "washer" to further ensure that the victim did not fall off.

This caused me to wonder about, then, Thomas' insistence on seeing the "palms" of Jesus' hands, but an expert on that era at Miami University, Ed Yamauchi, informed me that the Greek word for "wrists" and "palms" was the same. So Thomas said he wouldn't believe until he put his fingers in the holes in the wrists.