I missed this when it appeared last week: Why Was Jesus Crucified?, by Larry Hurtado.
I leaned upon his excellent book The Earliest Christian Artifacts as I wrote Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols.
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[…] favorite books), wrote an article for Slate entitled “Why Was Jesus Crucified?” (h/t Mike Aquilina). Hurtado writes, Indeed, one criterion that ought to be applied more rigorously in modern […]