Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53: pierced

Pierced. Psalm 22 in the Greek and the King James, and Isaiah 53, describe a method the culture did not practise: Jewish judicial execution was stoning.

In plain words

Isaiah 53, and Psalm 22 as the Greek and the King James read it, describe a death by piercing, a method Israel's own courts did not use; their executions were chiefly by stoning. This does not depend on when the texts were written: no one back-dates a method their own courts never practised.

The mechanism

THE ATTACK THE OTHER THREE CANNOT TOUCH — forgery, dating and self-fulfilment are all attacks on provenance. This one is not about provenance. You cannot retrofit a method your own courts do not practise

Scripture

Psalm 22; Isaiah 53

How it was checked

• EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED; a capture
• Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
• Plate — The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa), column containing Isaiah 53 · Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Shrine of the Book · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Isaiah_Scroll_Ch53.jpg
• SourcesSCRIPTURE + SECULAR RECORD — the judicial procedure of the period; the Great Isaiah Scroll, c. 125 BC, physically in a named building