Discuss. What do you think about the Shroud of Turin? Is it really the ancient burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth?
I will provide for you in the following posts with all the evidence that I have to support it's authenticity as the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. And I have to do a persuasive speech presentation for my class at school anyways soon , so I (literally) dare you all to try and refute me on this one. Alright, people, buckle up....here we go.
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From CNN News: Shroud of Turin Enigma Solved: In 1988, scientists tested faith. Specifically, they conducted three tests on the Shroud of Turin, believed by the faithful to be the burial cloth of the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, to determine its age.
The Carbon-14 tests, performed independently at three different radiocarbon labs, dated the cloth between 1260 and 1390 AD. The conclusion: The Shroud couldn't be Jesus' burial cloth. In fact, the British Museum, which coordinated the testing, branded it "a hoax."
Or were those three tests wrong?
Scientists with The American Shroud of Turin Association for Research have now shown that the 1988 Carbon-14 tests on the Shroud of Turin were not performed on the original burial cloth, but rather on a rewoven shroud patch. That means the tests created an erroneous date for the actual age of the Shroud.
What is the Shroud of Turin? It is a large piece of linen cloth that shows the faint full-body image of a blood-covered man on its surface. Many believe it was the burial cloth in which Jesus was wrapped after he was crucified.
"Now conclusive evidence, gathered over the past two years, proves that the sample used to date the Shroud was actually taken from an expertly-done rewoven patch," AMSTAR President, Tom D'Muhala, said in a news release announcing the findings. "Chemical testing indicates that the linen Shroud is actually very old--much older than the published 1988 radiocarbon date."
Chemist Raymond Rogers, a fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico who conducted the latest testing, said, "As unlikely as it seems, the sample used to test the age of the Shroud of Turin in 1988 was taken from a rewoven area of the Shroud. Pyrolysis-mass-spectrometry results from the sample area coupled with microscopic and microchemical observations prove that the radiocarbon sample was not part of the original cloth of the Shroud of Turin which is currently housed at The Turin Cathedral in Italy. The radiocarbon sample has completely different chemical properties than the main part of the shroud relic," explains Rogers. "The sample tested was dyed using technology that began to appear in Italy about the time the Crusaders' last bastion fell to the Mameluke Turks in AD 1291. The radiocarbon sample cannot be older than about AD 1290, agreeing with the age determined in 1988. However, the Shroud itself is actually much older."
Rogers insists the radiocarbon sample was cut from a medieval patch and is totally different in composition from the main part of the Shroud of Turin. Based on his findings, which have been published in Thermochimica Acta, a chemistry peer reviewed scientific journal, the American Shroud of Turin Association for Research declares that the 1988 tests have been refuted.
The age of the Shroud of Turin is still to be determined.
From The Shroud of Turin: Proof of the Resurrection: The latest and most dramatic discoveries concern a piece of writing on the Shroud itself. For years, people had been asking why below and to the sides of the chin there are three clear and regular lines where no imprint is present. The Paris-based organisation CIERT (Centre International d’Etudes sur le Linceul de Turin, The international centre of studies on the Shroud of Turin), which I represent in Italy, has conducted studies in the most advanced institute in Europe for image analysis via computer, the Institut Optique d’Orsay, whose director is Professor André Marion. All official photographs of the Shroud were divided into tens of thousands of squares which were then given a corresponding optical density and transferred onto a visualisation programme. By means of an extremely advanced programme, some letters gradually began to emerge, in Latin and in Greek: under the chin, we find written ‘Jesus’ and on one side, ‘Nazarene’. What is the explanation for this? The ‘exactor mortis’ the centurion charged with ensuring the execution of the condemned, had drawn strips of ‘glue’ onto the cloth on which he would write the name of the deceased with a red liquid. Where these strips were drawn, the cloth was impermeable and would not, therefore, be subject to the chemical process which subsequently formed the imprint.
From Web Site: New Evidence That The Shroud Is Real (National Enquirer 20/11/79): The image of a coin placed over the right eye on the figure on the burial cloth actually shows the coin was minted near the time of Christ's death, according to Rev. Francis L. Filas, S.M., a top expert on the Shroud. With the assistance of coin expert Michael Marx, Father Filas has identified the image of a coin imprinted on the shroud as a coin minted only between A.D. 29 and 36. Christ died in A.D. 30. Placing coins on the eyes of the dead was an ancient burial custom in Christ's time, according to Father Filas, professor of theology at Loyola University of Chicago. Using high quality, high contrast photos of the shroud, Father Filas and Michael Marx deciphered that the coin clearly features a tiny staff, called a "lituus," bordered by four Greek letters. That staff and the Greek letters were found only, on coins minted during Pontius Pilate's governorship of Judea, from A.D. 29 until A.D: 36.
I will provide for you in the following posts with all the evidence that I have to support it's authenticity as the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. And I have to do a persuasive speech presentation for my class at school anyways soon , so I (literally) dare you all to try and refute me on this one. Alright, people, buckle up....here we go.
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From CNN News: Shroud of Turin Enigma Solved: In 1988, scientists tested faith. Specifically, they conducted three tests on the Shroud of Turin, believed by the faithful to be the burial cloth of the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, to determine its age.
The Carbon-14 tests, performed independently at three different radiocarbon labs, dated the cloth between 1260 and 1390 AD. The conclusion: The Shroud couldn't be Jesus' burial cloth. In fact, the British Museum, which coordinated the testing, branded it "a hoax."
Or were those three tests wrong?
Scientists with The American Shroud of Turin Association for Research have now shown that the 1988 Carbon-14 tests on the Shroud of Turin were not performed on the original burial cloth, but rather on a rewoven shroud patch. That means the tests created an erroneous date for the actual age of the Shroud.
What is the Shroud of Turin? It is a large piece of linen cloth that shows the faint full-body image of a blood-covered man on its surface. Many believe it was the burial cloth in which Jesus was wrapped after he was crucified.
"Now conclusive evidence, gathered over the past two years, proves that the sample used to date the Shroud was actually taken from an expertly-done rewoven patch," AMSTAR President, Tom D'Muhala, said in a news release announcing the findings. "Chemical testing indicates that the linen Shroud is actually very old--much older than the published 1988 radiocarbon date."
Chemist Raymond Rogers, a fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico who conducted the latest testing, said, "As unlikely as it seems, the sample used to test the age of the Shroud of Turin in 1988 was taken from a rewoven area of the Shroud. Pyrolysis-mass-spectrometry results from the sample area coupled with microscopic and microchemical observations prove that the radiocarbon sample was not part of the original cloth of the Shroud of Turin which is currently housed at The Turin Cathedral in Italy. The radiocarbon sample has completely different chemical properties than the main part of the shroud relic," explains Rogers. "The sample tested was dyed using technology that began to appear in Italy about the time the Crusaders' last bastion fell to the Mameluke Turks in AD 1291. The radiocarbon sample cannot be older than about AD 1290, agreeing with the age determined in 1988. However, the Shroud itself is actually much older."
Rogers insists the radiocarbon sample was cut from a medieval patch and is totally different in composition from the main part of the Shroud of Turin. Based on his findings, which have been published in Thermochimica Acta, a chemistry peer reviewed scientific journal, the American Shroud of Turin Association for Research declares that the 1988 tests have been refuted.
The age of the Shroud of Turin is still to be determined.
From The Shroud of Turin: Proof of the Resurrection: The latest and most dramatic discoveries concern a piece of writing on the Shroud itself. For years, people had been asking why below and to the sides of the chin there are three clear and regular lines where no imprint is present. The Paris-based organisation CIERT (Centre International d’Etudes sur le Linceul de Turin, The international centre of studies on the Shroud of Turin), which I represent in Italy, has conducted studies in the most advanced institute in Europe for image analysis via computer, the Institut Optique d’Orsay, whose director is Professor André Marion. All official photographs of the Shroud were divided into tens of thousands of squares which were then given a corresponding optical density and transferred onto a visualisation programme. By means of an extremely advanced programme, some letters gradually began to emerge, in Latin and in Greek: under the chin, we find written ‘Jesus’ and on one side, ‘Nazarene’. What is the explanation for this? The ‘exactor mortis’ the centurion charged with ensuring the execution of the condemned, had drawn strips of ‘glue’ onto the cloth on which he would write the name of the deceased with a red liquid. Where these strips were drawn, the cloth was impermeable and would not, therefore, be subject to the chemical process which subsequently formed the imprint.
From Web Site: New Evidence That The Shroud Is Real (National Enquirer 20/11/79): The image of a coin placed over the right eye on the figure on the burial cloth actually shows the coin was minted near the time of Christ's death, according to Rev. Francis L. Filas, S.M., a top expert on the Shroud. With the assistance of coin expert Michael Marx, Father Filas has identified the image of a coin imprinted on the shroud as a coin minted only between A.D. 29 and 36. Christ died in A.D. 30. Placing coins on the eyes of the dead was an ancient burial custom in Christ's time, according to Father Filas, professor of theology at Loyola University of Chicago. Using high quality, high contrast photos of the shroud, Father Filas and Michael Marx deciphered that the coin clearly features a tiny staff, called a "lituus," bordered by four Greek letters. That staff and the Greek letters were found only, on coins minted during Pontius Pilate's governorship of Judea, from A.D. 29 until A.D: 36.
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