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The Shroud of Turin is back! After keeping a low profile for a few years, new experiments on the age of the shroud were all over the papers and websites last week. But while the coverage was heavily pro-shroud, a closer look tells a different story.

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Read it here.

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Originally posted by Mike Keenan:
Remember a few years ago there were people hoping to get a DNA sample from the Shroud and clone Jesus, thus bringing about the second coming?

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wouldn't that be blasphemy?

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Originally posted by skdadl:
Well, there is that burial box -- what is the term for it?

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I b'lieve the term you want is "ossuary" (sp?)

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Originally posted by thwap:
What would be cool would be if [assuming there was a historical Jesus] the shroud were real, and they got his DNA and cloned him and he turned out to have no super powers whatsoever!

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Originally posted by skdadl:
Well, there is that burial box -- what is the term for it? -- that visited the ROM a couple of years ago and that some claim is the [coffin] of Jesus' brother James.

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Remember a few years ago there were people hoping to get a DNA sample from the Shroud and clone Jesus, thus bringing about the second coming?

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Originally posted by Mike Keenan:
Remember a few years ago there were people hoping to get a DNA sample from the Shroud and clone Jesus, thus bringing about the second coming?

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Originally posted by Mike Keenan:
Remember a few years ago there were people hoping to get a DNA sample from the Shroud and clone Jesus, thus bringing about the second coming?

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Originally posted by voice of the damned:
I mean, is there anything else like it in the world?

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well, since i just happened to have presented a paper on this last saturday . . .

[random historical interlude]
Well, Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea wrote in the 4th century about Christ wiping a cloth over his face and producing a similar imprint, which he ostensibly sent to King Abgar V of Edessa. Bishop E. claimed to have found letters between Jesus and the King (who actually was a historical King in the beginning of the 1st century). This, image, called the Mandylion was subsequently held up as proof that Jesus himself had produced an icon, which meant they must be okay (a matter under considerable dispute up to the iconoclasm of the 8th century). A similar story exists in western tradition, claiming that christ's face was imprinted on St. Veronica's veil when she wiped his face with it during his stagger up to Calvary. But no one claims to have seen either of these two images in a couple of hundred years. [/random historical interlude]