Crucifixion of Jesus is portrayed in the Bible as death on the cross. This same word "crucifixion" also appears in the Quran however contemporary to Joseph. Skeptics claim that whoever wrote the Quran made a mistake; the Romans invented this method 4th century BC so crucifixion could not have been known at the time of Joseph. Today Egyptologists found papyrus depicting crucifixion before Joseph.
National Library of Medicine, The History and Pathology of Crucifixion, F P Retief, L Cilliers.
Crucifixion was known and used by Assyrians and Babylonians long before Romans but the victims were tied or impaled on a post instead of a cross. This was only known recently, however this was portrayed in the Quran 1400 years before it was discovered. Joseph told his inmate that he will be crucified.
He was crucified on a stake, not on a cross.
"Autad الْأَوْتَادِ" means stakes. Victims were tied or impaled on these stakes.
In another verse it implied that it was not a T shaped cross:
"I will cut off your hands and your feet on alternate sides, and I will crucify you on the trunks of the palm-trees." If the hands were cut off then definitely it was not a T shaped cross, it had to be impalement on stakes. In the same verse it says that he will crucify them on the trunks of palm trees; these are just thicker than the usual stakes as a bigger punishment for them. This method of crucifixion was known and used by Assyrians and Babylonians long before Romans.
Today Egyptologists found papyrus depicting impalement on stakes.
HIEROGLYPH FOR IMPALEMENT ON A STAKE
Figure 4: Hieroglyph writing for "Stake. rdj hr = To put on the stake (for punishment)"; det. = determinative, hieroglyph for classifying Egyptian words. Here it shows an impaled man bent upon a stake.
Number 3 shows impalement on a stake.
Mentioning of impalement in the Theban account papyrus
(Papyrus Boulaq 18)
Papyrus Boulaq 18 is dated to the early Second Intermediate Period reign of Chendjer / Sobekhotep II; both of them kings from the 13th Dynasty. It is translated as:
"a blood bath (?) had occurred with (by?) wood (?) ... the comrade was put on the stake, land near the island ...; waking alive at the places of life, safety and health ..."
This proves that impalement on stake was known and used by Egyptians before Joseph.
(In the Christian Bible Jesus insists that the only sign we should verify is him being in the grave for three days and three nights (Matthew 12:38-40). So we are checking: He was crucified on Friday afternoon, the day before the Sabbath (Mark 15:42), and then he was resurrected on Sunday morning (Mark 16:9). Between Friday afternoon and Sunday morning there is 36 hours. Can anyone fit within those 36 hours three days and three nights?)
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