Joseph Raymond provides the following comparative chart which addresses the small "feminine" stature of Antigonus, whom the Romans mockingly called by the feminine name Antigone:
Posted on 04/08/2016 1:34:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Few have heard anything about the "Abba Cave," discovered in 1971 in the north Jerusalem suburb of Givat Hamivtar-not far from the tomb of "Yehohanan," the famous "crucified man," discovered in 1968-about which much has been written. The Abba cave held the remains of another "crucified man," with three nails-not just a single one in the heel bone-that clearly pinned the hands (not the wrists, as some have argued) in hook-like fashion to a cross beam. It was assumed back in the 1970s that these bones were buried and no longer available for analysis-but it turns out this is not the case. What is even more intriguing, the victim was arguably none other than Matitiyahu Antigonus-the last of the Hashmonean kings-who was both beheaded and crucified by Marc Anthony. in 37 BCE)...
Despite recent nay-saying... by those who are apparently not aware of all the facts, including the available skeletal remains and nails mentioned here, the case that the tomb held the remains of a crucified/beheaded male, as Nicu Haas first indicated, is a convincing one, given this latest analysis from Prof. Hershkovitz. Also those who have argued that crucifixion nails went through the wrist not the hands, and that these nails are too "short" to be for crucifixion, are just mistaken. Hershkovitz has definitely clarified this issue. The nails are driven into the palm, then either angled or bent into a hook, not to hold up the body but to keep the hands and arms in place-thus "tacking" or pinning the hands to the wood behind. The hypothesis that this individual was the Hasmonean royal priest/king Antigonus turns out to be a live option...
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Joseph Raymond provides the following comparative chart which addresses the small "feminine" stature of Antigonus, whom the Romans mockingly called by the feminine name Antigone:
That was tough, it wouldn’t load for me directly, so I plucked it out of Google cache. Here are a couple of the links within the article, including some stuff that was edited for length:
A Narrative Argument that the Teacher of Righteousness was Hyrcanus II
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/2015/03/dou398018.shtml
Cold Case: Did Archaeologists Find the Last Maccabean King, After All?
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.587977
Hmm, the graphic didn’t appear here until I’d loaded it into a different tab. Somethin’s up with Tabor’s ‘blog / server.
https://jamestabor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/AbbaTomb-Antigonus.png
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