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To: jiggyboy

You are very much mistaken.


27 posted on 03/30/2012 10:25:25 AM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if...")
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To: papertyger; Swordmaker

eh, ok three years ago:

The weave of the Tomb of the Shroud fabric, the new study says, casts further doubt on the Shroud of Turin as Jesus’ burial cloth.

The newfound shroud was something of a patchwork of simply woven linen and wool textiles, the study found. The Shroud of Turin, by contrast, is made of a single textile woven in a complex twill pattern, a type of cloth not known to have been available in the region until medieval times, Gibson said.

Both the tomb’s location and the textile offer evidence for the apparently elite status of the corpse, he added. The way the wool in the shroud was spun indicates it had been imported from elsewhere in the Mediterranean—something a wealthy Jerusalem family from this period would likely have done.

Assuming the new shroud typifies those used in Jerusalem during the time of Jesus, the researchers maintain that the Shroud of Turin could not have originated in the city.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091216-shroud-of-turin-jesus-jerusalem-leprosy.html


30 posted on 03/30/2012 11:28:50 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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