Shroud of Turin Not Jesus', Tomb Discovery Suggests

National Geographic ^ | December 17, 2009 | Mati Milstein

[Mamzelle]

The Shroud is a beautiful artifact even without the image. People don't devote enough thought to the cloth itself. Fabric is so cheap today, and has been relatively cheap now for centuries. We tend to forget how many hours of labor used to go into a length of cloth before present technology. Grow the flax, process the flax, spin it, warp it on loom and weave it--represents weeks of labor for one person.

Such a large piece of linen was very costly. The pictures I've seen show repairs, and repairing was like an art during the Medieval times and before. For such a piece of cloth to last even several hundred years makes it remarkable.

If the fabric is not 2000 years old, it is not the Shroud, whatever the image shows. They just need to competently test the fabric from an area that has not been repaired. It is very strange that they have not done this.

If the fabric tests out to be from the time of Christ, that would make the cloth a fascinating relic even without the image, since preserving cloth for so long a period of time. It would also add a lot of credit to whether the image is authentic and supernaturally produced.

[SunkenCiv]

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[TheThirdRuffian]

Neat post.

Some straw on the “less likely to be real” side of the scale, in that:

(1) it survived (common argument being the mere survival of the SOT is a miracle) and

(2) it is consistent with the argument that the fabric of the SOT was not in use at the time in question.

But, just some weight and not conclusive.

I agree — in matters of religion (in particular, denominational arguments among Christians), there is increasingly little room for logic on any side.