Jesus Died From Blood Clot

Jerusalem Post:

Jesus died "suddenly" on the cross in Jerusalem only three to four hours after being crucified by the Romans, apparently due to a pulmonary embolism caused by the lack of movement of his limbs and not from hemorrhaging ....

This is the theory of Professor Benjamin Brenner who is an expert on thrombosis. Brenner reports in the latest issue of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis that 34-year-old Jesus of Nazareth may have had additional risk factors because he was Jewish.

"Born in Israel to a Jewish family, [it] is not unlikely that he had inherited a hypercoagulable state, since thrombophilia is linked to a mutation common in Israel and especially in people residing in the Galilee area," Brenner writes.

So Professor Brenner believes that Jesus actually died from a hypercoagulable-thrombophilia-mutation something or other. The argument probably won't convince very many people if Brenner keeps using those $50-dollar words. It's recommended that more conventional scientific terminology be employed, such as the easily understandable "bloodus clottus."

Facetiousness aside, Brenner studied the circumstances Jesus endured in the 12 hours before his death and created a profile of his physical condition. He then coupled the presumed physical condition with the Jewish genetic anomaly to establish the likelihood that Jesus' blood clotted and flow stopped before he bled out. Hence, Brenner concluded that the likelihood was high and it provides the basis for his theory.

Interesting.