[1] According all four Gospels, Jesus Christ was crucified by the Romans at Golgotha ("the place of a skull"), apparently a hillock outside Jerusalem. The physical location of any Golgotha is not known, and no extra-Biblical account recording the location of Jesus' death exists. The word "Calvary" does not appear until the Latin Vulgate translation.
Father: (details are in dispute)
Mother: Virgin Mary
Brother: James (half brother)
Brother: Joseph (half brother)
Brother: Simon (half brother)
Brother: Judas (half brother)
Sister: (multiple half sisters)
Founded Religion Christianity
Blasphemy
Sedition
Flogged
Tortured
Biblical Figures
Birthday Is Holiday 25-Dec, Christmas (observed)
Parodied As A Muppet
Rotten Library Page:
Jesus Christ
Appears on the cover of:
Life, Dec-1994, DETAILS: Who was He? -- Solving the Mystery of Jesus, and why it matters today (depiction by Dutch painter Joos Van Cleeve, 16th c.)
Newsweek, 16-Feb-2004, DETAILS: Who Really Killed Jesus? -- What history teaches us -- The storm over Mel Gibson's The Passion (photo by Philippe Antonello, Christ in thorns from Gibson's film), BYLINE: Jon Meacham
AKA Yeshua Ha-Nozri
