Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Writers hold different views on the form of the gibbet used in the execution of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity, and differ about the meaning of the Greek word "stauros" which was used in the New Testament books to refer to it. Tradition and historical and textual evidence suggest it was in the form of a Latin cross ( ). Easton''s Bible Dictionary lists the forms in which such gibbets are represented: The crux simplex (I), a "single piece without transom". The crux decussata (X), or St. Andrew''s cross.The crux commissa (T), or St. Anthony''s cross. The crux immissa ( ), or Latin cross