Was Jesus of Nazareth the only man ever crucified?

Answer 1

Of course not, crucifixion was a favorite death among the Roman soldiers. Jesus died in between two other men being crucified on the same day.
Jesus was the only man who was crucified for your sins and then rose again, however.

Answer 2

You have answers about Roman practices giving an idea of scale. What they were normally crucified on were the notched poles (pales) used to form the palisade around Roman military camps. These were pre-notched to fit together fast and were reusable. They also did not use nails but lashings because of cost. So the crosses for crucifying would be X (greek =kh/khi and roman=ch) shaped and not T(tau) shaped
Note that crucifixion can also be referred to or actually be impalement.

Now about other Man Gods Crucified to save the World. You have Osiris, Horus, Krsna, Mithra, Dionysus, and likely about a dozen others.

This link carries a caution on its scholarship, ok.
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/kersey_graves/16/

This has more;
http://www.geocities.com/faithofyeshua/crucified_sun_godno4.htm

Man-Fish/ Woman-fish-Gods crucified:
http://www.crystalinks.com/amphibiousgods.html

There are tons of material on this with varying derees of validity. If you go exploring have fun and try not to get to serious about it.

Answer 3

No. On the same day he was crucified, 2 theives were hung with him. And then inlater times, Vlad Tzepesh (Dracula) had many of his victims either crucified of impaled to make a statement. But it was used a lot in the times of the romans

Answer 4

No, crucifixion is a brutal form of execution widely practised at the time of the Roman empire. However, crucifixion does exist, to a lesser extent in pre-Roman time. (and after) Callisthenes who served as a historian for Alexander the Great was said to be crucified for disobeying the latter.

During Roman times, crucifixion is commonly used to execute slaves, pirates, rebels etc. However, Roman citizens are usually spared this humiliating death, unless they commit serious offenses against the state.

Answer 5

Oooh, for real "wow" check this...the roman slave rebellion of Spartacus. 6,600 of Spartacus's followers were crucified along the Via Appia (or the Appian Way) from Capua to Rome—the distance being 132 Roman miles (or 5,000 Roman feet), so 100 Roman feet apart. Crassus never gave orders for the bodies to be taken down, thus travelers were forced to see the bodies for years, perhaps decades, after the final battle.

Answer 6

Josephus change into not a up to date of Jesus (who might want to have existed yet change into not divine). Josephus eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf37 CE - c100 CE the challenge of the Testimonium's authenticity has attracted a lot scholarly communicate. Louis Feldman counts 87 articles printed in the course of the era of 19eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf37-1980, "the vast majority of which question its authenticity in complete or partly".[3] i have self assurance Jesus might want to have existed. i do not have self assurance he change into divine nor the messiah. He fulfilled not one of the prophecies about the messiah in accordance to the OT. i have self assurance if he existed, he change into performed as a revolt criminal. One would not throw the Roman infantrymen guarding the Temple without some stress. stress hostile to Roman infantrymen meant rebel, punishable by lack of life. It did not even cost a note of pastime between the Romans or historians of the era. Prophets were instantly ahead, so were rebels.

Answer 7

No, the Romans used to crucify tons of people.

Answer 8

Hardley! There were two others within 10 feet of Him.
Actually it was a fairley common method of punishment for serious crimes throughout the Roman empire.

Answer 9

There were two other men crucified along with him. And there were many more, before and after.

Answer 10

Some of you will get a kick out of this...and of course, some of you won't:

After hearing stories from missionaries, Japanese warlords so liked the idea of crucifixion that many incorporated it into their codes of punishment.

Isn't the history of religion fun?!