Researcher says she found text on Shroud of Turin

AP ^ | November 20, 2009

[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.

[BertWheeler]

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

No worries, mate.

[BertWheeler]

What are you getting at?

So - wala - I’m sitting here wondering.

[BertWheeler]

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

[Hegewisch Dupa]

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.

[TXnMA]

"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...

[BertWheeler]

Cool.

We’re on the same page.

[TXnMA]

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

[Snurple]

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

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

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!

[samiam1972]

“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!

[dr_who]

“The Christ-crazed Crusader Curio Shop, Constantinople”

[dr_who]

We have a winner!

[SunkenCiv]

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