The Sudarium of Oviedo, Signs of Jesus Christ’s Death, by César Barta. A Selective Review. To demonstrate that the Sudarium of Oviedo is the companion to the Shroud of Turin, and that both are described in the Gospel of St John, several pieces of evidence might be adduced, and a new book by Cesar Barta […]
Author: hughfarey
Frankly, I’m a little surprised that the news that the Shroud has at last been definitively proven to be from the time of Christ has received considerably less publicity than the discovery that it is actually a tablecloth made in Burton-on-Trent, or the idea that Jesus didn’t die from crucifixion, but by rupturing blood vessels […]
Popular commenters on the Shroud invariably mention the 1978 investigations carried out by the STuRP team, but usually forget that an earlier scientific investigation had already been carried out by an Italian Commission, with almost contradictory results. One reason for this is the difficulty of obtaining much detailed information regarding the earlier report, which seems […]
Prequel! Added much later than the original post, but this seems to be the place. I’m indebted to Gary Habermas’s recent book, On The Resurrection (Volume 1), for a mention of a possible fourth archaeological bit of evidence for the crucifixion in the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Human Paleopathology. It talks about some bones recovered “from […]
I have a pair of gaudy cufflinks, with large cut “stones” set in “silver.” They are fashion jewellery, and cost practically nothing, but they often stimulate a curious question, especially from children: “Are they real?” What, I wonder, is the answer? I often reply, “No, they’re imaginary,” but that is, of course, not what was […]
A recent paper published in World Scientific News 1 observes that Shroud blood contains significantly less nitrogen than ordinary blood, and that a possible explanation for this is that neutron radiation created during the Resurrection of Christ converted the nitrogen into carbon-14, thereby coincidentally distorting the medieval date discovered in 1988. To find out whether […]
I’ve been alerted to three short papers published at academia.edu, on the subject of the invincibility of Ray Rogers’s Thermochimica Acta paper (which was coincidentally the subject of my last post), by a Polish sindonologist who goes by the initials O.K. He has a website called Apologetyka (apologetyka.info), and I think I know his identity, […]
I’m sorry that we never met, and that, since your passing in 2005, we won’t be going to, in this world at least. Nevertheless, since I have been studying your paper in Thermochimica Acta on the Shroud of Turin and found it a little confusing, I hope you won’t mind my publicising some of my […]
The moment the eminent scientific journal Nature published ‘Radiocarbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin’ on 16 February 1989, strenuous efforts began in order to discredit it. The protocol adopted, the selection of the sample site, the size and number of the sub-samples and the personal character of those involved have all been criticised, sometimes […]
This image is from Folio 210V of the Madrid Skylitzes, a manuscript of the “Synopsis of Histories” by John Skylitzes, copied in the twelfth century and currently in the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid. It illustrates a short story whose words appear immediately above and below it: αὐχμοῦ δὲ γενομένου, ὡς ἐπὶ μῆνας ὅλους […]