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Researcher: Jesus died of blood clot
Friday 10 June 2005, 2:14 Makka Time, 23:14 GMT
An Israeli researcher has challenged the popular Christian belief that Jesus
died of asphyxiation and blood loss on the cross, saying he probably succumbed
to a sometimes fatal disorder now associated with long-haul air travel.
Professor Benjamin Brenner wrote in The Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
that Jesus's death, traditionally believed to have occurred 3-6 hours after
crucifixion began, was probably caused by a blood clot that reached his lungs.
Such pulmonary embolisms, leading to sudden death, can stem from
immobilisation, multiple trauma and dehydration, said Brenner, a researcher at
Rambam Medical Centre in Haifa.
"This fits well with Jesus's condition and actually was in all likelihood the
major cause of death by crucifixion," he wrote in the article, based on
religious and medical texts.
A 1986 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association mentioned the
possibility that Jesus suffered a blood clot but concluded that he died of
blood loss.
New insights
But Brenner said research into blood coagulation had made significant strides
over the past two decades.
He said recent medical research has linked immobility among passengers on
lengthy air flights to deep vein thrombosis, popularly known as "economy-class
syndrome" in which potentially fatal blood clots can develop, usually in the
lower legs.
Brenner noted that before crucifixion, Jesus underwent scourging, but the
researcher concluded that "the amount of blood loss by itself" would not have
killed him.
He said that Jesus, as a Jew from what is now northern Israel, may have been
particularly at risk to a fatal blood clot.
Thrombophilia, a rare condition in which blood has an increased tendency to
clot, is common to natives of the Galilee, the researcher wrote.
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