About this title: Coinciding with the first public display of the mysterious Shroud of Turin in 20 years, Ian Wilson reviews the evidence surrounding the supposed burial shroud of Jesus Christ. Wilson disputes the accuracy of radiocarbon dating that indicated the shroud was made in medieval times.
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Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1998
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Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1998-04-01
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Free Press
Date Published: 1998
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1998
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780684853598ISBN:0684853590
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"If you're like me, you don't know much about the Shroud of Turin. You've probably heard of it, know it's some kind of ancient relic that supposedly bears the image of Christ. Perhaps you're even aware that radiocarbon dating pegged its origins in the 13th or 14th centuries, meaning that it's a fake.
No matter what your position on the Shroud (real, fake, or don't care), you'll enjoy reading about it. Wilson is a fine writer, careful and thorough. He wrote a book about the Shroud in 1978, in which he declared the cloth to be real, and the radiocarbon dating in 1988 threw him for a loop. So he started his investigation anew, and the result is this book.
Though a believer in the Shroud's legitimacy, Wilson does not proselytize. He painstakingly examines all the arguments, for and against, and offers an honest explanation. He does not call names or cast aspersions on his opponents. He is candid when the evidence is lacking. In other words, this is no heavy-handed attempt to convince readers of his viewpoint. Instead, it's a serious work of scholarship.
I don't want to give too much away about the actual arguments, but let's just say there is a lot of evidence that the Shroud is real. For example, the blood patterns on the cloth are remarkably consistent with how they should appear, adhering to the laws of gravity and medicine. A forger in the 1200s or 1300s would have lacked that same precise knowledge and yet somehow accurately reflected it.
Although the Shroud as we know it today doesn't appear in the historical record until the 1350s, there is evidence that something remarkably like it appeared much farther back in history. French crusader Robert de Clari wrote this about his sightseeing trip in Constantinople in 1203: "There was another church which was called My Lady St Mary at Blachernae, where there was the shroud in which Our Lord had been wrapped, which every Friday raised itself upright, so that one could see the figure of Our Lord on it."
But what about the radiocarbon dating? For many people, that decided the issue, although there are several outstanding questions that must be answered for that to be true. The forger lacking knowledge of gravity is just one of them. Wilson presents many more and offers good reasons why the radiocarbon test could have been wrong.
The whole issue demands more inspection, but the Vatican, who now owns the Shroud, has declared it off-limits. That's a shame. Its secrets should be revealed."
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