I’ve read, I think, every major work on the shroud in English and believe it to be genuine. This one I may or may not get, if that’s the depth of its analysis: the early believers would have been torn between the sacredness of the object and the fact that the death wrappings were ritually unclean in Judaism, handling such was forbidden, and anyone who handled them, ie, to display them, would also have been considered unclean. They had enough to worry about with the Jewish officials having it in for them to add another layer of trouble
Thanks. I had never thought of that aspect.