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Back in 2014, I wrote an article to bring people up to date on the status of Shroud of Turin research at that time. Now eight years old, “Some Ruminations on the Shroud of Turin“ easily escapes the notice of newer visitors to our website. It seems to be an appropriate time to revisit some of the timeless exegetical details covered there and take them a bit further.
Legend says that this was another separate cloth also mentioned in the bible. >> "and he saw the linen wrappings lying there and the cloth that had been on jesus' head." >> we've taken this cloth into the laboratory, analyzed what the stains are made of, and most of them are one part blood and six parts pleural edema fluid which is a liquid that collects in the lungs when somebody dies of asphyxiation. ♪ ♪ >> scholars believe that most victims of crucifixion would have died of suffocation, and the fluids associated with this would be left in the lungs. guscin's studies appear to shine new ...
What i should have done. i should have spoken on your behalf." >> guscin believes that marks on the sudarium where the forehead would have been help explain how joseph removed the body from the cross. >> the only way that we could reproduce these was if the body was lying face down on the ground so that all of this liquid and blood trickling out of the nose would move down onto the forehead, but then the body was carried face down for between 5 to 10 minutes while somebody was holding the cloth to the face. >> in the tomb, the sudarium would have been removed and jesus then wrapped in the shro...
Record of the relic tied it to jerusalem just over 500 years after jesus' death. for guscin, these records suggest it is at least 700 years older than the shroud. how could that be? guscin believes the dating of the shroud must be wrong. >> now that is an incredible conclusion because they could only have coincided in jerusalem sometime before the 5th century which says an awful lot about the dating of the shroud of turin and how it does not date from the medieval times, and it is, in fact, a much earlier cloth. >> despite decades of scientific scrutiny, for many, the mystery and power of the ...
Christ and when the body was laid in the tomb. >> but guscin believes that there's an even more important reason to study the sudarium. for him, the stains on the cloth are like a fingerprint, unique to one person. >> if this cloth was wrapped around the head of another person who had maybe even suffered the same kind of torture and wounds, then the stains would have a different shape and a different format. >> for guscin, this was to prove critical because when the team compared these blood stains on the sudarium with those on the shroud, they made an extraordinary discovery. the blood stains...