Most often, a nut. [This post was written after Part 1 of Jones’s new series (see below), with Parts 2, 3 and 4 – or more – to follow. I don’t intend to wait for them as a) they may never happen, b) they may extend exponentially into the future, and c) I doubt if […]
Author: hughfarey
From Hagrid to Hermione, or R2D2 to Jabba the Hutt, the Movie Franchises of the world are crammed with dozens of very different characters, and the internet is buzzing with quizzes to help you discover which of them fits your personality best. From without and within the world of Sindonology, it is sometimes assumed that […]
A Review of‘Beyond Imagination, Evidence of Rigor Mortis and Cadaveric Spasm on the Shroud of Turin,’by Theodora Pappas,Medical & Clinical Case Reports Journal, URF Publishers, 2024 [Nobody should read this article without also reading Teddi Pappas’s responses, below.I think they deny rather than refute what I have written,but they re-present and amplify the alternative view.] […]
A review of ‘Folding Patterns of the Shroud of Turin,’ by Pam Moon, academia.edu, January 2025 The various marks left by adventitious damage to the Shroud demonstrate at least three different ways in which the Shroud has been folded, and throughout most of the twentieth century it has been rolled up. In her paper, Pam […]
John Loken has been active in the Shroud field for two decades, and recently a reviewer of this blog, as a believer in the Shroud’s authenticity and in a natural, not supernatural, formation of the image on it. The world of sindonology is far more nuanced than a cursory review might suppose. Not all Christians […]
We left Jack Markwardt’s masterly review of just about every reference to every image of Jesus in Christendom up to the year 900 with the Tarragona Manuscript, which specifically refers to the Image of Edessa being locked away after an earthquake in Constantinople (and therefore a post-944 date), but which Markwardt thinks actually refers to […]
A preliminary experiment One of the difficulties in determining the minimum density of red ochre that might be needed to make a noticeable difference to a colourless cloth is the experimental procedure from which to measure it. Morris, Schwalbe and London (‘X-Ray Fluorescence Investigation of the Shroud of Turin,’ X-Ray Spectrometry, 1980) calculated values of […]
What on earth happened – or should I say didn’t happen – on 20th August 2024? Out of a blue sky, a sudden media frenzy erupted around a previously largely unnoticed piece of research carried out by some Italian scientists two to five years previously. Entering “Shroud” “Turin” and “WAXS” into the Google search bar […]
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