A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ as Described by a Surgeon

by Pierre Barbet

Overview

2024 Reprint of the 1953 Edition. Illustrated with 12 plates. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. What the Gospels don't reveal about Christ's sufferings, science does. While the Gospels relate only the barest essentials concerning the physical suffering of Jesus, Dr. Pierre Barbet addresses these gaps with scientific inquiry. A Doctor at Calvary provides a forensic pathologist's analysis of the Holy Shroud of Turin, which reveals the graphic account of Jesus's suffering at the hands of the Romans. Through a modern medical lens, Dr. Barbet examines the methods of infliction and physiological effects of each wound. He also delves into the historic practice and mechanics of crucifixion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684228799
Publisher:	Martino Fine Books
Publication date:	03/22/2024
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Surgeon, classicist, linguist, archaeologist, liturgist, and all-round scholar, Pierre Barbet applied a full, rich lifetime of thought, experience, and study to the problem of Christ's sufferings and death. Born in 1883, Dr. Barbet took his medical training in Paris. He served as surgeon in several hospitals while also giving instruction in anatomy. He served four years as surgeon in the French army during World War I. Deeply interested in the literature of other countries, he was especially competent in Greek and Latin, which proved highly useful in his study of Christ's sufferings, and he published translations of Dante, Michelangelo, and Jacopone da Todi from Italian. He had an absorbing interest in Christian archaeology and amassed a large library on the history of art.