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Crucifixion was a Roman practice. Stoning shows up often in New Testament
texts as a local practice. Are there Jewish texts from the beginning of
the Common era discussing stoning as a penalty?
Tom Izbicki
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>> > Do you mean to say that Jews under Ottoman rule would have had the >
>> option of doing their own burnings?> > DW
> Yes, the very text from which the execution of a Priest's wife is said to
> have been done by molten lead, was used by a former Rabbinics professor of
> mine to prove that he Jews had the option to execute even at the time of
> Christ. Other texts indicate that this authority continued to later times.
> This is contrary to what is usually believed to be the reason why the Jews
> brought Jesus to Pilate and Herod. I would have to dig up dusty notes from
> the attic, but could, if you wanted the texts. But then again they are in
> postbiblical Hebrew and Aramaic.
>
> --V. K. Inman
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