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'i Foothills View, December 17, 1981, Pa» Shrouded In Mystery Burial Cloth of Jesus? (Featured last Sunday on NBC’s Search For the Historical Jesus” the Shroud of Turin has exerted a fascina tion on viewers for the last 600 years. The following article by Cullen Murphy originally appeared in Harper’s Maga zine and the Washington Post. It is condensed below by View staffer Blankenship. The Editor.) By Edwin Blankenship View News Staff The Shroud is a 435 cm, 170 inch, by 110 cm, 43 inches strip oflinen.lt has lain in Turin since 1694. It bears on its surface the image of a crucified man. Both the back and front images are present, as if the victim were Iain on a long strip and the other end folded his head and body. There are “nail marks’’ in his wrist and feet, a “lance wound“on the left side of his chest, rivulets of blood about the head and the wounds of a scourging on the man’s back and legs. Anatomically and Biblically all these details are correct. STURP scientists have estimated this man’s height to be 181 cm, 70 inches and his weight to be 77 kgs, 170 pounds. permission to perform a series of nondestructive tests on the Shroud. They scanned and photographed the Shroud using all parts of the spectrum, including X-rays, and took microscopic samples of debris and fiber with adhesive tape for chemical and microscopic tests. The Church has refused to allow carbon 14 dating tests because a portion of the cloth would be destroyed in the process. Walter McCrone, director of the McCrone Research Institute, bases his disbelief in the Shroud’s authenticity on microscopic analysis of particles taken in Turin. He reports finding more iron oxide in the “blood areas’’ than elsewhere. He believes this iron “I believe the Shroud is a fake, but I cannot prove it,” says W’alter McCrone. His co-worker Bob Dinegar disagrees. “As an unbiased scientist I cannot state that the Shroud is authentic, I know of no way anyone could prove it. Personally I have the gut feeling it is the real thing.” Dinegar and McCrone (until his resignation last year) are members of the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), which for the past three years has investigated the Shroud’s authenticity as the burial cloth of Jesus. Located at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the atomic bomb was developed, the group includes professional scientists, engineers, and photographers. They number Baptists, Lutherans, Mormons, Episcopalians, Jews, Catholics, and apostics. Their disagreement is a continuation of the dispute begun in 1357, the year the Shroud was first exhibited publically in Livey, France. ''Somewhere along the way, you'd expect a forger to make some mistake. But there aren't any, and some of the little touches are very nice. )> The Roman Catholic Church has for 600 years oxide is from a pigment painted on by a “highly declined to make an official ruling on the authenticity skilled and well-informed artist”. of the Shroud, but in 1978 STURP obtained The rest of the STURP team think tha* these him to death. conclusions have too narrow a basis and to a man contest McCrone. The image is only on the topmost ends of the fibers and penetra,e no further into the cloth. It is also so pale that it is invisible close up and is only visible at a distance. Tire Shroud is also a perfect pRolographic negative a fact accidentally discovered in 1898 by Secondo Pia’ an amateur photographer. The negative reveals a clear lifelike form. Dr. Robert Bucklin, a forensic pathologist, has analysed the wounds on the image and concluded that they are consistant with an aetual crucifiction. More than a hundred scourge marks are present made by a flagrum (a whip used to punish slaves)’ From the angle and direction of these marks Bucklin deducted that the victim was whipped, while nude, by two men, one of whom was shorter than the other! The victims legs are unbroken and he had died of congestive heart failure before a Roman lancia pierced his chest between the fifth and sixth ribs and entered the r^ht ventricle of the heart. John Jackson one of the men responsible for the 3-D discovery says “Somewhere dong the wav them up under UV. As for whether th? t Christ s all I can say is that the wouyare consistant with the gospel accounts. I mean this was realIv^wan7eH^rH“‘*S"’ Somebody hta to death but torture 12 Months o£ Our Best 2S Years of Kays Gary’s A thoughtful gift for Christmas . . . Kays Gary, Columnist, a collection of over 60 columns written over the last 25 years by this Cleveland County native . . . now available to subscribers of the Foothills View. Kays signed and set aside 10 autographed copies to be sold through the View. We’re offering them to the first 10 people who order their 12-month subscription. That’s a $7.00 value plus the $10.95 list cost of the book — yours for only $13.00. An autographed copy of Kays Gary, Columnist plus a subscription to the View at a total savings of $5.00. That’s a combination you can’t pass up. Book and subscription are sold together, and may be ordered either by beginning a new sub scription to the View or renewing this year’s. But we only have 10, so hurry — for your copy of Kays Gary, Columnist. We’ll pay all postage. Orders received after book is sold out will be returned with payment to addressee. MaiT completed form with check for $13.00 to The Foothills View, P. 0. Box 982, Boiling Springs 28017. Kays Gary Columnist Foreword by C.A. McKnight Name Address • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ♦ • % * ki’S. ■ • ' • •
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