The link is to an open letter written by Shroud of Turin historian Daniel Porter to John Dominic Crossan, who is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. He is a fellow and a former co-chair of the Jesus Seminar. Professor Crossan has published works suggesting that Jesus Christ was not buried because peasants, which he maintains Jesus was, would not have been able to afford a tomb and that crucified peasants would have been allowed to rot on the cross or fed to the dogs. The letter is an excellent thumbnail review of the scholarship and...