[ex-snook]

I have a shroud question if anyone knows. Are the wounds in the hand or in the wrist?

[Chode]

the hands are crossed with only the top viable but the one on top has a wound on the wrist

[sand88]

I have a shroud question if anyone knows. Are the wounds in the hand or in the wrist?

In the wrist.

[RoosterRedux]

See for yourself (click on image to see larger size)...

[NYer]

Are the wounds in the hand or in the wrist?

According to the experts who examined the shroud, the wounds are in the wrist ref

[Secret Agent Man]

In the wrist. Nobody nails in the hands, they can’t support the weight of a person, it’d tear through them. They already were looking for this long ago, they know how the Romans crucified and know anatomy. You can see it in the image.

[Former Fetus]

Several people have already answer that the wounds are in the wrist. That seems to pose a problem for some people, as Psalm 22 v. 16 says They pierced My hands and My feet. Well, I have taught basic anatomy and physiology in college and I can say that, when studying bones, the wrist is always considered part of the hand.

What I am trying to say is that the wounds observed in the shroud match both the description given in Ps 22:16 and the anatomical fact that nails through the "hand" (i.e. metacarpals) would not be able to support the weigh of a person.

[Swordmaker]

The exit wound show the nail exited from the wrist but a nail driven into the base of the palm, right where one can feel a depression between the bones, a.fact an experienced crucifixionist would know, the bones of the wrist will move apart, the median nerve is either severed or damaged, causing the thumb to flop into the palm in permanent rictus, and the natural exit on the back of the wrist after passing through the Space of Destot, named for the anatomist who mapped it, is exactly where it is seen on the Shroud coming out the back of the middle of the wrist. This will support the full weight of a man. A nail through the muscles between the finger bones of the palm may or may not be sufficient to attach the victim to the patibulem for the several days required in many crucifixions. . . Often that location would tear through under weight and stress.

[maine-iac7]

on the wrist -

something the forensic scientists now say would be correct, becasue, if in the hand, the weight of he hanging body would rip them out

Also, anciently, the word “hand” was understood to include the wrist where it joins what we now call the hand -

[RightOnline]

Wrist. People were never crucified via nails through the hands. That would not support their body weight; the nails would have merely torn through.