The Apostolic Tradition was the work of Hippolytus, written somewhere between 215 and 400 AD. Recent scholars seem to take the later date (source ). The whole writing can be found here: Apostolic Tradition . Among the 'oddities' of this Tradition, seems to be that people were baptized 'nude', which I assume means that only deaconesses were overseeing the baptism of woman. Am I reading this correctly, or not? >21 At the hour in which the cock crows, they shall first pray over the water. 2When they come to the water, the water shall be pure and flowing, that is, the water of a spring or a flowing body of water. 3Then they shall take off all their clothes. 4The children shall be baptized first. All of the children who can answer for themselves, let them answer. If there are any children who cannot answer for themselves, let their parents answer for them, or someone else from their family. 5After this, the men will be baptized. Finally, the women, after they have unbound their hair, and removed their jewelry. No one shall take any foreign object with themselves down into the water. (Hippolytus, The Apostolic Tradition )

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Roman Antiquities 7.69.2): > The men ordered to lead the slave to his punishment, having stretched out both his arms and fastened them to a piece of wood which extended across his breast and shoulders as far as his wrists, followed him, tearing his **naked body** with whips. > > “Some punishments were inflicted on the **naked body** and were more painful and humiliating than others.” - ASOR December 2018, Vol. VI, No. 12 Insight ([it-1 pp. 413-414](https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000887)) Captive: A person in bondage, exile, confinement, or under restraint, especially one seized and carried off as a result of war. … Often conquerors delighted in … leading them off “**naked and barefoot, and with buttocks stripped**,” to their humiliation and shame. ​- Isaiah 20:4. (Matt.27:31; Jn. 19:23)

Wikipedia's article on crucifixion says > While a crucifixion was an execution, it was also a humiliation, by > making the condemned as vulnerable as possible. Although artists have > traditionally depicted the figure on a cross with a loin cloth or a > covering of the genitals, the person being crucified was usually > stripped naked. Is there a scholarly consensus that Jesus was also crucified naked? How have Christian traditions and scholars explained this?

In Genesis 9:22-25, Ham's son Canaan was cursed because Ham saw his father (Noah) naked. The punishment seems excessive indicating there is more to the passage than meets the eye. What did Ham do to cause Noah to curse his son, Canaan?

I was told that people were baptised naked in the early Christian church. Is this true? If so, could you provide references please?

> **John 21: 7 ** > > 7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the > Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his > fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into > the sea. Was he REALLY naked or just embarrassed? The Holy Bible seems to correlate nakedness with shamefulness.

In Mark 10:46-52, we have the story of Blind Bartimaeus Receives His Sight >So they called to the blind man, “Cheer up! On your feet! He’s calling you.” 50 Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus. I've seen some treatments of the story that claim Bartimaeus would have been so poor as to possess *nothing* but a mat and a cloak, so would have come to Jesus naked. Thus, extra theological meanings are drawn about coming without any works or individual merits, the scandal of free grace etc. A google image search turns up many inspiring depictions of the event from historical paintings or woodcuts, but none hint at nakedness. But many hardly depict a desperately poor person who's thrown off anything. What evidence do we have for this? What prominent theologians have made this claim?

After sinning, Adam and Eve "sewed fig leaves together" and made clothing for themselves. However, when God comes into the garden and calls to Adam, Adam responds by claiming that he was afraid and that his fear came from his own nakedness. >[Genesis 3:7-10 (ESV)](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%203:7-10&version=ESV)
> 7Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were > naked. **And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves > loincloths.** 8And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the > garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid > themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the > garden. 9But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where > are you?" 10And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, > and I was afraid, **because I was naked**, and I hid myself."
Why does Adam claim he is still naked, even after clothing himself with the fig leaves?