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Shroud of Turin Interviews

The Shroud of Turin Revealed: A Fascinating Exploration with Joe Bergeron, Part I     

Interview with Guy Powell. June 14, 2023

The Shroud of Turin Revealed: A Fascinating Exploration with Joe Bergeron, Part II     

Interview with Guy Powell. June 14, 2023

The Man Behind the ShroudStars, Cells, and God Podcast, Reasons to Believe. Interview with Jeff Zweerink, April 26, 2023 

The Image on the ShroudStars, Cells, and God Podcast, Reasons to Believe. Interview with Jeff Zweerink, May 1, 2023 

References:

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Joseph W. Bergeron, The Crucifixion of Jesus: A Medical Doctor Examines the Death and Resurrection of Christ (Rapid City, SD: Crosslink, 2019)

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Frederick T. Zugibe, The Crucifixion of Jesus: A Forensic Inquiry (New York: M. Evans, 2005).   See chapters 11-20 for discussion of the Shroud of Turin

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Raymond N. Rogers, A Chemist’s Perspective on the Shroud of Turin, ed. Barrie M. Schwortz (self-pub., Lulu, 2008)

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Raymond N. Rogers, “Studies on the radiocarbon sample form the shroud of turin,” Thermochimica Acta 425 (2005) 192.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tca.2004.09.029 http://www.shroud.it/ROGERS-3.PDF 

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Rachel Hachlili, Jewish Funerary Customs, Practices and Rites in the Second Temple Period (Leiden: Brill, 2005)

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McGovern TW, Kaminskas DA, Fernandes ES. Did Jesus Die by Suffocation?: An Appraisal of the Evidence. The Linacre Quarterly. 2023;90(1):64-79. doi:10.1177/00243639221116217

Endnotes:

 

The age of the Shroud can be estimated to between 1300 and 3000 years old.  See, Raymond N. Rogers, “Studies on the radiocarbon sample form the shroud of turin,” Thermochimica Acta 425 (2005) 192.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tca.2004.09.029  http://www.shroud.it/ROGERS-3.PDF 

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How the thread was produced (Z-spun, i.e. spindle rotating clockwise) indicates the Shroud was from European (northern provinces) rather than middle eastern or African provinces.   The alternate spin type, S-spun (spindle rotating counterclockwise), was used in north Africa and the eastern provinces and would have been the case with cloth made in Judea.  J.P. Wild, The Textile Manufacture in the Northern Roman Provinces. Cambridge University Press. 1970.  p 38

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The Shroud of Turin was not manufactured in Jerusalem, evidenced by the absence of Z-spun thread and herringbone weave textiles in 1st century Jewish archeological research.  For the Shroud of Turin to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ it must have been imported, therefore. A burial textile from the first century CE in Jerusalem compared to roman textiles in the land of Israel and the Turin Shroud | SHS Web of Conferences (shs conferences.org) https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shsconf/abs/2015/02/shsconf_atsi2014_00010/shsconf_atsi2014_00010.html

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The Shroud of Turin may have been imported from Rome suggested by the Z-spun thread and herringbone weave. A fragment of herringbone weave cloth was found in a 1st century Roman-British tomb, but none have been found in period Jerusalem tombs. (PDF) Textiles and textile production in Europe. From Prehistory to AD 400 / Switzerland : Neolithic period | Fabienne Médard - Academia.edu  p. 448.  Also, there was a large expatriate Jewish population in Rome during the 1st century, 10% of the population by some estimates, enough to support export trade. https://aish.com/the-surge-of-converts-to-judaism-in-ancient-rome/ .

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