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Definition:
The Shourd of Turin is revered by many as the original, actual burial shroud of Jesus
Christ. The cloth appears to have the image of a crucified man on it, complete with blood
and markings on the body. There are, however, a number of problems which make it very
difficult to identify this piece of cloth with anything that might have been a real burial
shroud of anyone.
- The proportions are all wrong - no human being could have made that impression. The impression is also not consistent with a person lying down. The blood on the head, for example, is consistent with a person standing.
- At the time when Jesus was supposed to have lived, burial was done with multiple pieces of cloth and the New Testament stories include the use of multiple piece - including a separate piece of the face.
- Radiocarbon dating performed in 1988 by three different labs all agree that the cloth dates to between 1260 - 1390, around the time when the cloth was "discovered."
- Church leaders at the time when the cloth was first "discovered" rejected it as a fake.
- The "blood" on the cloth has not been identified as blood but instead as red ocher and vermilion tempera paint.
- The same sort of image can be duplicated artistically.
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