Oxford view on Shroud of Turin eagerly awaited

Irish Times ^ | August 7, 2008

[NYer]

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[NYer]

SHROUD STORY

[trisham]

Dr August Accetta, California, has carried out a fascinating experiment in which he injected himself with a radioactive compound used in medical imaging to show up internal organs. He then assumed the pose of the man imaged on the TS and a gamma camera imaged the radioactivity emanating from his body. The results astonishingly replicated most of the features of the image on the TS.

So there you have it. The TS story is still running strongly. We await the results of the Oxford radio carbon dating.

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Wow.

Will this be the definitive opinion?

[Alex Murphy]

Dr August Accetta, California, has carried out a fascinating experiment in which he injected himself with a radioactive compound used in medical imaging to show up internal organs. He then assumed the pose of the man imaged on the TS and a gamma camera imaged the radioactivity emanating from his body. The results astonishingly replicated most of the features of the image on the TS....

....right before the California lab was destroyed by something still considered "top secret" by the U.S. Army.

[Pistolshot]

Will this be the definitive opinion?

No matter what Oxford presents, there will be skeptics.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I’ve always surmised that the image was due to ionizing radiation emanating from a piece of statuary made of rock containing radioactive materials. The early Byzantine history of the Image of Edessa claims that the original stood untouched in the walls of Edessa for five hundred years, and was found in the company of an exact duplicate of the cloth image on a “tile.”

[trisham]

Unfortunately, you are probably right.

This will be interesting, regardless of the outcome.

[Pistolshot]

Not sure about the section of the Shroud that the Oxford samples have been taken. If there are from the proper area around the original portions and not the added pieces from the fire damage, we might get realistic data.

It will be interesting to see what the newer technologies produce for results.

[dsc]

So now we’re supposed to trust academia? They can’t even tell the truth about economics.

[ZULU]

I believe it is the genuine thing.

I hope the tests will confirm its authenticity.

The summary above omits numerous other facts which have lead Sindonologists to conclude a forgery is not possible here.

[Unam Sanctam]

Byzantine tradition refers to a shroud bearing an image of Christ taken from Jerusalem to Turkey in the first century, then lost, rediscovered and brought to Constantinople in 944.

Actually, the Mandylion of Edessa was discovered in Edessa in the 544 AD, so if the Shroud is the Mandylion, that brings it back to 544, not 944.

[GregoTX]

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[magisterium]

It looks like the writer just glossed over a step along the way. The Shroud was held in Edessa from the time of its discovery there in 544, until the Byzantine emperor had the cloth “transferred” (”expropriated” might be a better term) to Constantinople in 944.

[NYer]

Will this be the definitive opinion?

He will know.

[Swordmaker]

Shroud article... PING!

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[NYer]

I’ve always surmised that the image was due to ionizing radiation emanating from a piece of statuary made of rock containing radioactive materials.

We have a shroud expert in the forum. In the meantime, click on the SHROUD STORY link posted above for the most current scientific research.

[Swordmaker]

This is not a very good recap of the current state of the art in Shroud research... I will look at it in more detail when I have time.

[trisham]

Thanks!

[Raineygoodyear]

I believe this is the Shroud of Christ...