Probably. And what’s it? The nails used to crucify Jesus are for sale on Ebay! If anyone does believe it, they deserve to pay a very high price for their folly. With thanks to David Ker for noticing it.
UPDATE: Stephen comments (and I repost it here because some of you don’t read comments)
In case you are someone else are actually interested. These appear to be old door nails, with huge heads. We researched and built the synagogue doors using nails like this at Nazareth Village. This size of a head takes quite a lot of pounding to flare out this wide. The door boards first have holes drilled through and then the iron nails were inserted, pushed through the aligned holes and then pounded so that the head is flush with the door’s exterior surface. The protruding point on the other side is first bent and pounded flush on the doors interior. The widened head of the doornail is intended to make it difficult to knock the head off (if not the door could easily be dismantled from the exterior, by intruders breaking off the nail heads). Crucifixion nails would normally be made of bonze, not iron, which could easily be unbent at the tip (like a brad) in order to take the body down form the cross.These were also often reusable. Iron nails were typically dificult or impossible to unbend. The use of iron nails could make it necessary to break the wood of the cross or the body part in order to separate the two (as in the case of the Givat HaMivtar crucified man). The date of these nails is difficult to determine without seeing them closer. Two thousand year iron would normally be more corroded that what appears in this photo.
Comment by Stephen Pfann — February 21, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
Filed under: Biblical Studies Resources
Are you back?
They’re holding back the one(s) the gypsies stole for when they really need the money, no doubt.
So glad to see you back in blogdom Jim. Who else is gonna keep us up to speed with the really important stuff?
Welcome back, Jim.
In case you are someone else are actually interested.
These appear to be old door nails, with huge heads. We researched and built the synagogue doors using nails like this at Nazareth Village.
This size of a head takes quite a lot of pounding to flare out this wide. The door boards first have holes drilled through and then the iron nails were inserted, pushed through the aligned holes and then pounded so that the head is flush with the door’s exterior surface. The protruding point on the other side is first bent and pounded flush on the doors interior. The widened head of the doornail is intended to make it difficult to knock the head off (if not the door could easily be dismantled from the exterior, by intruders breaking off the nail heads).
Crucifixion nails would normally be made of bonze, not iron, which could easily be unbent at the tip (like a brad) in order to take the body down form the cross.These were also often reusable.
Iron nails were typically dificult or impossible to unbend. The use of iron nails could make it necessary to break the wood of the cross or the body part in order to separate the two (as in the case of the Givat HaMivtar crucified man).
The date of these nails is difficult to determine without seeing them closer. Two thousand year iron would normally be more corroded that what appears in this photo.
Makes you wonder about what kind of search terms Ker is putting into eBay.
I tremble to consider it…
Man, I hope someone outbids me. They looked real to me…
(Actually, I didn’t visit the site. I only quoted Boing Boing.)
Well, last year a “feather” of the Holy Spirit was sold on eBay for 2,900 $. So, I see no difficulties in selling those nails.
Why not THE nails (and one is missing)
Why not ?
If you believe in Jesus resurrection
for sure you can believe in his nails
Robert
I guess they have to do DNA testing to see if there’s any evidence… Maybe Simcha can match them up to the ossuaries at Talpiot!