'Jesus-era' burial shroud found

bbc ^ | 16 December 2009 | Bethany Bell

[Iscool]

The newly found cloth has a simpler weave than Turin's, the scientists say. The body of a man wrapped in fragments of the shroud was found in a tomb dating from the time of Jesus near the Old City of Jerusalem.

Fragments??? How then do they know it was a shroud???

You don't get wrapped in a shroud...It's one piece...Starts at the foot on the front, goes up over the head and down the back to the back of the feet...

Apparently what they found were fragments of some cloth...And of the weave that was used in those days...

[RegulatorCountry]

In the Old Testament, the Hinnom Valley or Gehenna was a place of abominable pagan rites, including infant sacrifice. It was there that the apostate kings Ahaz and Manasseh made their children “pass through the fire” to the god Molech. The rites were specifically celebrated in Tophet, the “place of abhorrence,” one of the chief groves in the valley

King Josiah of ancient Judah finally put an end to these abominations. He defiled the valley, rendering it ceremonially unclean (II Kings 23:10). Later the valley became the cesspool and city dump of Jerusalem - a repository for sewage, refuse and animal carcasses. The bodies of despised criminals were also burned there along with the rubbish. Fires burned continuously, feeding on a constant supply of garbage and refuse.

Aceldama, the “field of blood”, purchased with the money Judas received for the betrayal of Christ (Matt. 27:8) was also in part of the valley of Hinnom.

[Publius6961]

Is this the best the anti-Shroud people can do?

Well, they are enthusiastic.

No one ever claimed they were bright.

[American Constitutionalist]

That is where Jesus used the illustration of hell and possibility could have been near the area when he was talking to his disciples about hell...

[seemoAR]

What is the big deal about the Shroud? Are we supposed to worship it or something? I just can’t find any mention of that in my Bible.