# Did Jesus Christ die of pulmonary embolism?
#### (2005) - B Brenner
**Link**:: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1538-7836.2005.01525.x
**DOI**:: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2005.01525.x
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**Tags**:: #paper
**Cite Key**:: [@Brenner2005-dh]
### Abstract
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The life and teachings of Jesus Christ have attracted enormous attention throughout the past 2 millennia. His agony and death was the subject for numerous religious scholar and artistic creations. While the common views describe the death of Jesus on the cross as a result of bleeding, the following thesis will present another, yet unreported cause for his death. A number of medical articles dealt with JesusÕ suffering and death [1–3]. In an elaborate medical paper on the physical death of Jesus Christ published almost 20 years ago in JAMA …
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