Topic index "X": The Shroud of Turin blog

TOPIC INDEX "X"
Copyright © Stephen E. Jones[1]

I have reluctantly decided to abandon this Topic Index series. It is taking up too much of my scarce time and most of the entries are unimportant.

This is "Topic index `X'" of my index to topics that I have posted to this my The Shroud of Turin blog. For information on this series, see "`A' and Index."

[Right: Upper (enlarge). Extract of a 1931 Shroud negative photograph (flipped horizontally for comparison with the postive below), by professional photographer Giuseppe Enrie (1886-1961), showing x-ray images of the Shroud man's under-the-skin hand bones[LM10a]. Lower (enlarge): Extract of a 2002 positive Shroud photograph by another professional photo-grapher, Gian Carlo Durante, also showing x-ray images of the Shroud man's under-the-skin hand bones[LM10b].

These photos are from a future "Xray 10Dec15."

A medieval forger would not know about x-rays as they were discovered in 1895[XRW] by Wilhelm Röntgen (1900-23)[WRW], let alone depict them! Sceptics had claimed this as evidence that the Shroud was a forgery because "the hands and fingers [are] long and spidery"[DD84; SH88, 70]. But the claimed bug has turned out to be a feature! What we are seeing is "the finger bones ... visible well into the palm of the hands ... the internal skeletal structure of the hand imaged through the intervening flesh tissues onto the Shroud cloth"[JJ91, 333]. The "bones of the hand seemed to be showing up as if under an X-ray"[WS00, 37].

Further evidence that the image on the Shroud is a "snapshot' of the Resurrection" of Jesus!:

"Even from the limited available information, a hypothetical glimpse of the power operating at the moment of creation of the Shroud's image may be ventured. In the darkness of the Jerusalem tomb the dead body of Jesus lay, unwashed, covered in blood, on a stone slab. Suddenly, there is a burst of mysterious power from it. In that instant the blood dematerializes, dissolved perhaps by the flash, while its image and that of the body becomes indelibly fused onto the cloth, preserving for posterity a literal `snapshot' of the Resurrection"[WI79, 251].

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X-ray 29Oct07, 01Dec07.

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Bibliography
DD84. Dutton, D., 1984, "Requiem for the Shroud of Turin," Michigan Quarterly Review 23, 243-55.
JJ91. Jackson, J.P., "An Unconventional Hypothesis to Explain all Image Characteristics Found on the Shroud Image," in Berard, A., ed., 1991, "History, Science, Theology and the Shroud," Symposium Proceedings, St. Louis Missouri, June 22-23, 1991, The Man in the Shroud Committee of Amarillo, Texas: Amarillo TX, 325-344.
LM10a. Extract from Latendresse, M., 2010, "Shroud Scope: Enrie Negative Vertical," (flipped horizontally), Sindonology.org.
LM10b. Extract from Latendresse, M., 2010, "Shroud Scope: Durante 2002 Vertical," Sindonology.org.
SH88. Sox, H.D., 1988, "The Shroud Unmasked: Uncovering the Greatest Forgery of All Time," Lamp Press: Basingstoke UK.
WRW. "Wilhelm Röntgen: Discovery of X-rays," Wikipedia, 8 April 2024.
XRW. "X-ray: Discovery by Röntgen," Wikipedia, 8 May 2024.
WS00. Wilson, I. & Schwortz, B., 2000, "The Turin Shroud: The Illustrated Evidence," Michael O'Mara Books: London.

Posted 10 May 2024. Updated 11 May 2024.