The Cross and the Shroud: A Medical Inquiry Into the Crucifixion

by Frederick T. Zugibe

Book Overview

This book is written by a forensic pathologist and medical examiner. It is based on author's thirty years of experimentation and scholarly research. Dr. Zugibe conducted personal examinations of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913729752
• ISBN13: 9780913729755
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fascinating Science and Valuable Material for Meditation

I read this book because I was interested in finding out the physiological cause of Christ's death. Dr. Zugibe gives a very viable explanation but in addition gives a sensitive and vivid account of the last events of Christ's life. I found it profoundly moving to realize the breadth and profundity of Christ's suffering. Suffering which he entered into willingly! At one point the author (speaking as a forensic pathologist) notes, (given the tremendous blood loss, exhaustion, pain from the crown of thorns, etc.) that Jesus' surviving to be nailed to a cross was "an act of sheer will power." This is the loving Lord of all, who would will himself to suffer for the sins of the world. The material on the Shroud was also intriguing and the illustrations work well to support Zugibe's entire thesis.