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  2. Stoning - Wikipedia

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    Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from blunt trauma. It has been attested as a form of punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times. Stoning appears to have been the standard method of capital punishment in ancient Israel [citation needed]. Its use is ...

  3. Capital punishment in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The most common method mentioned is by stoning, followed by burning, and then by sword (once). There is a verse that mentions hanging; however, it isn't clear whether this is a separate method of killing, or something done with the body after it was dead.

  4. List of capital crimes in the Torah - Wikipedia

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    Necromancy, according to the Masoretic Text; specifically those who are masters over ghosts (Hebrew: Ba'al ob) and those who gain information from the dead (Hebrew: Yidde'oni). [7] The Septuagint instead condemns gastromancy (Greek: eggastrimuthos ), and enchantment (Greek: epaoidos ).

  5. Capital punishment in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    This expression applies to death by stoning. The Bible speaks also of hanging (Deut. 21:22), but (according to the rabbinical interpretation) not as a mode of execution, but rather of exposure after death. [60] [61] The following is a list by Maimonides of the crimes punished by each form of capital punishment: [62]

  6. Christian martyr - Wikipedia

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    The stoning to death of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, in a painting by the 16th-century Spanish artist Juan Correa de Vivar. In Christianity, a martyr is a person who was killed for their testimony for Jesus or faith in Jesus. [1]

  7. Zechariah ben Jehoiada - Wikipedia

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    In rabbinical literature, Zechariah was the son-in-law of the king, and, being also a priest, prophet, and judge, he dared censure the monarch.He was killed in the priests' courtyard of the Temple on a Sabbath which was likewise the Day of Atonement.

  8. Herem (war or property) - Wikipedia

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    The Stoning of Achan by Gustav Doré.Achan pillaged gold, silver, and a costly garment from Jericho, and was punished by stoning. [1]Herem or cherem (Hebrew: חרם, ḥērem), as used in the Tanakh, means something given over to the Lord, or under a ban, and sometimes refers to things or persons to be utterly destroyed.

  9. Saint Stephen - Wikipedia

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    A post-Byzantine tradition holds that Stephen's stoning occurred there, while an older tradition connects the martyrdom to the Damascus Gate, where a church and large monastic complex dedicated to Saint Stephen was built in the 5th century (see above). A modern Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Stephen stands a short distance from Lions' Gate

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