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Researcher says she found text on Shroud of Turin
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| 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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posted on
11/20/2009 6:04:05 AM PST
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NYer
To: NYer
Obama’s birth certificate??
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11/20/2009 6:05:53 AM PST
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Obadiah
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posted on
11/20/2009 6:06:00 AM PST
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NYer
("One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone" - Benedict XVI)
To: NYer
Made in China?.............
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11/20/2009 6:06:15 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
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posted on
11/20/2009 6:07:09 AM PST
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NYer
("One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone" - Benedict XVI)
To: NYer
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11/20/2009 6:07:39 AM PST
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Scythian
To: NYer
Starting to sound more and more like the Guadalupe incidents. The more they study, the more the mystery deepens. God is like that ;)
To: NYer
She believes the text was written on a document by a clerk to identify the body and the ink then seeped into the cloth. She has never written with a quill pen...................
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11/20/2009 6:09:09 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
To: NYer
Just last week there was a story of an Italian guy that duplicated the cloth and impression...
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posted on
11/20/2009 6:10:31 AM PST
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edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: NYer
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posted on
11/20/2009 6:11:28 AM PST
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An.American.Expatriate
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posted on
11/20/2009 6:13:03 AM PST
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Buck W.
(The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
To: Obadiah
Nah ... It was a newspaper account of the event.
Written by Helen Thomas.
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posted on
11/20/2009 6:13:52 AM PST
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ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Red Badger
Maybe these Bic ballpoint pens have been around a lot longer than we thought?
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posted on
11/20/2009 6:14:20 AM PST
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BertWheeler
(Dance and the World Dances With You!)
To: NYer
FYI:
Barbara Frale is a historian on staff at the Vatican Secret Archives. A specialist on the Templars, the Crusades, and the papacy, she earned her Ph.D. at the University of Venice. She lives in Viterbo, Italy.
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11/20/2009 6:14:49 AM PST
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An.American.Expatriate
(Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
To: NYer
"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." Interesting. According to John, the titulus crucis had been inscribed in Hebrew, Greek and Latin; however, if Christ were immediately removed from the cross and buried by Joseph of Arimathea (a follower of Christ), I'm not sure why a scribe would feel the need, or even be directed to generate what amounts to the 1st century equivalent of a toe tag for the corpse.
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11/20/2009 6:15:57 AM PST
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Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: NYer
Sounds like a German thang, very orderly and correct, but... Since when are shrouds tagged or, as it were, stamped? Given the prompt burial requirement, what would be the point?
To: An.American.Expatriate
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11/20/2009 6:16:45 AM PST
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Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: NYer
To: An.American.Expatriate
Vatican Secret Archives.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Vatican has **secret** archives? Huh?
To: An.American.Expatriate
Barbara Frale is a historian on staff at the Vatican Secret Archives. A specialist on the Templars, the Crusades, and the papacy, she earned her Ph.D. at the University of Venice. She lives in Viterbo, Italy. Is she married? And if so, does she have a sister?
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11/20/2009 6:22:02 AM PST
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Fido969
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