Question: Are there any stories in the old Testament that are similar to the crucifixion of Jesus?

Question

Either literally, or maybe a story that has a similar message to tell us. Was just wondering, any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!

Answer 1

For 2,000 years the crucifix has been a potent symbol of both Jesus Christ's death and Christianity. Now one Swedish theologian says that despite the crucifix's proliferation in art and literature, there is scant evidence in the Bible or other ancient sources to indicate that Christ was killed on a cross. While there were numerous references to "suspension devices" used for executions at the time of Christ's death, he could find no explicit references to the classic T-shaped cross."There is no distinct punishment called 'crucifixion,' no distinct punishment device called a 'crucifix' anywhere mentioned in any of the ancient texts including the Gospels,. To such a stake or pale the person to be punished was fastened, just as when the popular Greek hero Pro·meʹthe·us was represented as tied to a stake or stau·rosʹ. The Greek word which the dramatist Aesʹchy·lus used to describe this means to fasten or fix on a pole or stake, to impale, and the Greek author Lucian used a·na·stau·roʹo as a synonym for that word. In the Christian Greek Scriptures a·na·stau·roʹo occurs but once, at Hebrews 6:6. The root verb stau·roʹo occurs more than 40 times, and we have rendered it ‘impale’, with the footnote: ‘Or, “fasten on a stake or pole.’” Yet, while the Scriptures show that Jesus was nailed to his torture stake, they do not specifically say whether the evildoers impaled beside him were nailed or tied to their stakes. So, on page 141 of its book From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained, for example, the Watch Tower Society has shown regard for Biblical indications as well as acknowledgment of the fact that Roman impalementmethods included both nailing and tying. There Jesus is depicted as nailed to his torture stake, whereas the illustration shows the evildoers fastened by the simplest method, by tying.No such executions exist in the Hebrew scriptures called by some the Old testament which was under the Mosaic laws.God used the nations around Israel, such as Assyria, to execute punishment on Israel for her sins, and in this action those nations were as a rod of punishment, or chastisement, under God’s authority or allowance.