Impalement of Judea ns by Assyrian soldiers ( Assyria | Neo-Assyrian relief )

Impalement of Judean s in a Neo-Assyrian Empire | Neo-Assyrian relief.

Impalement replaced the earlier dimidiation – combining the dexter half of one coat with the sinister half of another – because dimidiation can create ambiguity between, for example, a bend and a chevron.

Impalement was a method of torture and execution whereby a person is pierced with a long stake.

Impalement was frequently practiced in Asia and Europe throughout the Middle Ages.

Initial from the charter granting Gaveston the Earl of Cornwall | earldom of Cornwall, showing the Coat of arms of England | arms of England at top, and Gaveston's coat of arms Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaled with those of de Clare below.

Impalement is the traumatic penetration of an organism by an elongated foreign object such as a stake, pole, or spear, and this usually implies complete perforation of the central mass of the impaled body.

Impalement, as a method of torture and execution, involves the body of a person being pierced with a long stake.

Impalement was only occasionally used by samurai leaders during the Age of Warring States.

Impalement is known to have been employed in several regions of southern Asia, such as in the Bengal region, where it was known as Shul ( Bengali: শ ূ ল ) and in ancient Tamilnadu, in present-day India, where it was referred to as Kazhuvetram.

Impalement was the usual sentence for the crime of treason against the king.

Impalement and other methods of torture were intended to intimidate civilian peasants at a local level into cooperating with the Viet Cong or discourage them from cooperating with the South Vietnamese Army or its allies.

Impalement was also used in other European countries, though to a more limited degree.

In the French commune of La Tour-du-Crieu, there is up to the present a street named " Rue du Pal " (" Impalement Street "), reflecting the use made of the site during the town's earlier history.

File: Impalement demo. svg | The same two coats impaled

Arms of Chichester Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling Copleston: Baron: Chequy or and gules, a chief vair a crescent sable for Difference ( heraldry ) | difference ( Chichester ); Feme: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three lion's faces azure ( Copleston ), surmounted by the Coronet | coronet of a viscount showing 9 of its 16 pearls.

The tour was followed shortly thereafter by the Grotesque Impalement EP, which the band released on their own Blunt Force Records label imprint.

Heraldic escutcheon on tomb of Hugh Oldham ( d. 1519 ), Bishop of Exeter: Dexter and sinister | Dexter: Gules, a sword erect in pale argent, hilted or surmounted by two keys addorsed in saltire of the last ( See of Exeter ) Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling: Sable, a chevron or between three owls argent on a chief of the second three roses gules ( Oldham ).

Heraldic escutcheon on easternmost of north aisle piers in Powderham Church, Devon, showing the arms of Courtenay of Powderham Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling Bonville: Sable, six mullets argent pierced gules.

Heraldic Escutcheon ( heraldry ) | escutcheon incised on tombstone of Reginald de Botreaux ( d. 1420 ) showing the Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaled arms of his parents: Baron: Argent, a griffin segreant gules armed azure ( Botreaux ); Femme: Azure seme of fleurs-de-lis a lion rampant or ( Beaumont )

Achievement ( heraldry ) | Heraldic achievement of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue, showing arms of Fortescue Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling Grenville, c. 1800, Possibly from a bookplate: Baron: Azure, a bend engrailled argent plain cottised or ; Femme: Vert, on a cross argent five Roundel | torteaux.

Disgorge played many shows throughout 1995 to broaden their fan base, and in 1996 recorded the first four tracks of Cranial Impalement which was not released at the time but was later distributed by Extremities Productions.

In 597, following a rebellion against Babylon, Ezekiel was among the large group of Judeans taken into captivity by the Babylonians.

According to the Hebrew Bible 50, 000 Judeans, led by Zerubabel returned to Judah and rebuilt the temple.

Being outnumbered and taking heavy casualties, the Romans refused to engage in an open battle and instead adopted a scorched earth policy which reduced and demoralized the Judean populace, slowly grinding away at the will of the Judeans to sustain the war.

According to the New Testament, Jesus ' crucifixion was authorized by Roman authorities at the insistence of leading Jews ( Judeans ) from the Sanhedrin.

For example, the Jesus Seminar translates this as " Judeans ", i. e. residents of Judea, in contrast to residents of Galilee.

On his return march, he found that the Judeans had selected Jehoahaz to succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with Jehoiakim.

It is also known that Israelites and later the subdivision of Israelites known as the Judeans spoke Hebrew as their main language and it is still used in Jewish holy scriptures, study, speech and prayer.

Yehud's constituency also remains debated ( e. g., was it composed only of those Judeans who returned from Babylon, or did these intermix with " the people ( already ) in the land "-עם הארץ ).

According to this hypothesis, after the disgrace of a rival faction in the struggle for succession to David, the family of Zadok became the sole authorized Jerusalem clergy, so that a Jebusite family monopolized the Jerusalem clergy for many centuries before becoming sufficiently attenuated to be indistinguishable from other Judeans or Judahites.

He placed restrictions on some Jewish practices, which caused a revolt by the Judeans, led by Simon Bar Kokhba.

In Rome the Arch of Titus | Arch of Titus still stands, depicting the enslaved Judeans and objects from the Temple being brought to Rome.

The main account of the revolt comes from Josephus, the former Jewish commander of Galilee who, after capture by the Romans after the Siege of Yodfat, attempted to end the rebellion by negotiating with the Judeans on Titus's behalf.

There was, however, a difference in social status, with Judeans looking down on Galileans, who had been settled in the region predominantly during the Hasmonean period according to archaeological evidence, as people of poorer and lower status ; this is also supported by archaeological evidence.

To speak of Galilean Judaism and Galilean Jews is to add an important qualifier, a point Meyer's work on Galilean regionalism stressed, but to juxtapose Galileans with Judeans, and to stress geographical differences at the expense of their common ethnicity, skews their common heritage and obscures their historical connections.

According to Josephus, Heshbon was in the possession of the Judeans since Alexander Jannaeus the Maccabee ( 106-79 B. C.

Rabbinic accounts of the siege assert that only about 110, 000 Judeans remained in Jerusalem under King Hezekiah's command, whereas about 130, 000 Judeans led by Shebna had joined Sennacherib's campaign against Tirhakah, king of Kush.

They succeeded in quickly routing Bacchides ' cavalry, who fled into the steep hills that surround Jerusalem, with the Judeans in hot pursuit.

Meanwhile, the left flank of Seleucid cavalry had been racing to meet up with the right flank, and in doing so surrounded and fought against the Judeans in the hills.

Judah was eventually killed and the remaining Judeans fled.

Betzalel Bar Kochva, an Israeli historian, believes that the Judeans would have had equal numbers to the Seleucids in this battle, that Bacchides ' retreat was feigned in order to lure Judah into a vulnerable position, and that the Seleucid phalanx managed to best the Judean phalanx in a full-scale battle.