Every year around Easter, the same old stories begin appearing in the media: The Romans executed Jesus of Nazareth for being a zealot revolutionary, his body allowed to hang on the cross for days and ...

University of Sheffield provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Jesus’s crucifixion is probably one of the most familiar images to emerge from Christianity. Good Friday, one of ...

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 and ...

THE image of Christ on the cross, arms stretched out to the sides, is seared onto many Christians’ minds. But this isn’t necessarily how people have imagined it throughout history. A new analysis of ...