![]() ![]() ![]() In the photo above the C looks as if the curve has a sharp point at 9 o'clock an optical distortion of the stain from the herringbone weave in contrastive light photography easily corrected looking at the Haltadefinizione scan of 2008 below which you can see is a smooth rounded curve. The first two forming the main body of the reversed 3 overlap at the middle with the upper part stroked as an S and below it a C like shape. Looking carefully it seems to have been formed in three segments. Rather we see a wound made by several strokes of a sharp object that cut into flesh, muscle, and veins, which was apparently red hot to scar, mar, and cauterize the venal puncture. It is very clearly and evidently neither a continuous drip of blood shaped like a reverse 3 by furrows of Christ's brow wincing in pain as many assume, nor a single continuous brushstroke of a painter as would be natural in either case. Enlargement of the Xi brand mark on the forehead as it appears on the Turin Shroud. ĭetail of the Holy Shroud of Turin in correct viewing position. Romans did not hesitate to torture condemned prisoners prior to execution with a severe beating with fists, kicks, and rods, flogged, stabbed with pins, reed pens or stylus, branded on their forehead, putting out their eyes, scalded with hot wax or oil, singed or burned with a torch, ripping out the tongue, knocking out their teeth, or cutting off ears and genitals. Rather what is reported is something that has been never before addressed from an archaeological perspective. I shall not be redundant repeating what has been written innumerable times previous about the remarkable correspondences of the Shroud image to Jesus of Nazareth depicted by the Evangelists in the New Testament during his passion and crucifixion. If the Shroud is indeed that of Jesus of Nazareth then the imagery should be consistent with what we should expect to find from the original sources. The image of a naked crucified male corpse is unmistakable and echoes Job 1:21 "Naked I came forth from my mother's womb and naked I shall return." An archaeologist naturally looks at this image to see what correspondence it has to prisoners condemned to crucifixion in Judea in the first half of the first century and to details recorded in the New Testament. ![]() The bloodstains on the Turin Shroud and the figurative imagery it produces are what make the Shroud significant to the general public. For the scientific minded, on the other hand, it is a refreshing and new fascinating physical-chemical puzzle to muse the mind. We shall see a brand mark on the forehead, the Latin word REX carved into his upper left lip, and the right hand covering the left in the corpse's supine position that will provide sufficient evidence to convince anyone which way the image is supposed to be correctly viewed.įor some the new discovery of the image formation process will propel the Turin Shroud further into deeper mystery. However there are three other points to determine which is the right from left. That shall be our starting point as a given. There has been some controversy regarding the side wound being on the left rather than the right. This articles presents for the first time a four point diagnostic test to verify which side is right and which is left of Jesus on the Turin Shroud. These images prove themselves reversed since they show the pierced heart on the right side rather than the left and have unwittingly produced generations of researchers looking at, studying, thinking about, experimenting, writing and publishing in all media incorrect information based on their analysis of the backwards image rather than looking at it correctly as shown below. Original 1898 print of Secondo Pia's photograph of the Holy Face printed the image reversed, flipped or backwards setting off the classic error of the 3 on the forehead since researchers and the public have been viewing and thinking about the image in reverse. ![]()
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