Genevieve’s Reviews > Crucifixion: In the Ancient World and the Folly of the Message of the Cross > Status Update

“All this leads to the final conclusion…When Paul spoke in his mission preaching about the ‘crucified Christ’, every hearer in the Greek-speaking East between Jerusalem and Illyria knew that this ‘Christ’…had suffered a particularly cruel and shameful death, which as a rule was reserved for hardened criminals, rebellious slaves and rebels against the Roman state.”