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Researcher says she found text on Shroud of Turin
AP ^ | November 20, 2009

Posted on 11/20/2009 6:04:03 AM PST by NYer

ROME — A Vatican researcher claims she has found a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin and says the discovery proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth.

The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara Frale drew immediate skepticism from some scientists, who maintain the shroud is a medieval forgery.

Frale, a researcher at the Vatican archives, says the faint writing emerged through computer analysis of photos of the shroud, which is not normally accessible for study.

Frale says the jumble of Greek, Latin and Aramaic includes the words "Jesus Nazarene" and mentions he was sentenced to death. She believes the text was written on a document by a clerk to identify the body and the ink then seeped into the cloth.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: clothofturin; godsgravesglyphs; history; medievalfake; shroud; turin
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

You can’t find the veneration (in my post) because I didn’t include veneration.

No worries, mate.


81 posted on 11/20/2009 9:38:25 AM PST by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
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To: TXnMA

What are you getting at?

So - wala - I’m sitting here wondering.


82 posted on 11/20/2009 9:39:52 AM PST by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

I like the hatchet story. In the future, I may use it myself.


83 posted on 11/20/2009 9:41:33 AM PST by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
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To: BertWheeler

Yeah - I get pretty frustrated with all the clowns who believe everyone who would rather not use the shroud to wrap fish, or as a drop cloth, or as kindling want to instead name their children Shroud of Turin and dance about it in a circle while sacrificing virgins to it. I knew you got the big picture.


84 posted on 11/20/2009 9:44:26 AM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: BertWheeler
"Then why did God in the old testament want the Ark of the Covenant made of gold?"

Because it was to be His -- and that is the way He wanted it. (And, of course, it was designed by Him to contain His Commandment against venerating "graven images" of our own making...)

"Besides, my post wasn’t a taking of sides, just an example of how misunderstandings occur."

I can see that -- now that you have explained further. My "veneration" remark was aimed more at the posted article...

85 posted on 11/20/2009 9:49:10 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: TXnMA

Cool.

We’re on the same page.


86 posted on 11/20/2009 9:50:59 AM PST by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
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To: BertWheeler

Merely a tacit appreciation of your discourse — and a suggestion as to how avoid rendering it less effective...


87 posted on 11/20/2009 9:54:54 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: An.American.Expatriate

Not guilty....she’s 100% correct.....what did she say again?


88 posted on 11/20/2009 10:04:46 AM PST by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: NYer
Scholars first noticed that there was writing on the shroud in 1978 but when the radiocarbon tests a decade later suggested that the shroud was a forgery, historians lost interest in the script, Dr Frale said.

First I'm hearing about it!

89 posted on 11/20/2009 11:50:05 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: IGOTMINE

“BE SURE TO EAT YOUR OVALTINE”.

ROFLOL!!! Oh, you got me there! I can’t wait to watch that this year! ;0) Thanks for the laugh!


90 posted on 11/20/2009 3:55:17 PM PST by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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To: NYer

“The Christ-crazed Crusader Curio Shop, Constantinople”


91 posted on 11/20/2009 11:14:37 PM PST by dr_who
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To: paulycy

We have a winner!


92 posted on 11/20/2009 11:16:17 PM PST by dr_who
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93 posted on 11/23/2009 7:48:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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