The Ongoing Historical Debate About the Shroud of Turin: The Case of the Pray Codex

The Jewish Shroud of Turin?

The Expository Times ◽

10.1177/001452468009200105 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 92 (1) ◽

pp. 13-16

Author(s):

Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok

Keyword(s):

Shroud Of Turin

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Physics and chemistry of the shroud of turin

Analytica Chimica Acta ◽

10.1016/s0003-2670(01)85263-6 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 135 (1) ◽

pp. 3-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 49

Author(s):

L.A. Schwalbe ◽

R.N. Rogers

Keyword(s):

Shroud Of Turin

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The Shroud of Turin

Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

10.5840/jis199791/28 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 121-140

Author(s):

Thaddeus J. Trenn ◽

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

The Body ◽

Religious Art ◽

Satisfactory Explanation ◽

Marshall Mcluhan ◽

Modern Age ◽

Shroud Of Turin ◽

High Degree ◽

As If

The Shroud of Turin, a linen cloth with but a faint image, continues to capture the interest of many people of diverse beliefs. Although the measured age of the cloth is relatively recent, other scientific findings indicate an earlier provenance. Any firm conclusions regarding the cloth's history remain premature. No satisfactory explanation has been found as yet for how the image on the cloth was produced structurally or stylistically. Iconographic evidence suggests that the image was the source of facial peculiarities found in early works of religious art. The body image bears a striking yet preternatural correlation with Scriptural accounts of wounds. Curiously, the image on the cloth functions as a photographic negative, exhibiting a high degree of resolution, as if the original were produced in pixels. Despite serious efforts to discover some artistic origin md medium, scientific evidence points in the direction that it was not produced by hands. If it is tme that the medium is the message, as Marshall McLuhan wrote, then the Turin Shroud may be a parable for the modern age.

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