Why is the Turin Shroud Authentic?

Abstract

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From Science to Christianity: Hypothesis Testing, Theory, Model, Experiment and Practice

“…Later dating by co-workers and Fanti (2018) based on various threads believed to be taken from the shroud points to dates from 300BC and 400AD which includes the period that Jesus Christ had lived. There are other pieces of evidence to suggest that the Shroud of Turin is much older than the earlier radiocarbon dating.…”

Why is the Turin Shroud Not Fake?

“…By authenticity [12], and therefore not a fake, we mean here a burial sheet, of very ancient manufacture, about 2000 years ago, which wrapped the corpse of a severely scourged man, crowned with thorns, crucified and dead, who could be identified with Jesus Christ. In this case, the conditional is necessary because it is not currently possible to identify with full scientific certainty the name of the person who was wrapped in the Shroud, even if the correlation between what is detected experimentally on the Relic and what we read in the Gospels helps a lot to recognize this Man.…”

“…In 1988 the Shroud was radiocarbon dated by three famous laboratories [17] and it turned out to be an age of 1325 AD with uncertainty of ±65 years, but this result was widely criticized [24,26,31] both for procedural and statistical problems. Five different methods, independent of each other, instead agree with the assignment of the first century AD the probable age when the artifact was built [12,24,26]. Samples of blood crust have been analyzed and the blood resulted considerably deteriorated, very brittle and mixed with pigments due to a restoration [27].…”

“…From a scientific point of view, it is important because it shows a double image of a man up to now not reproducible nor explainable; it is also religiously important because, according to the Christian tradition, it shows some traces of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. A recent paper [12] showed why and in which sense the Shroud is authentic, but many persons still keep on stating the contrary, probably pushed by their religion beliefs that arouses many logical-deductive problems. Consequently, some researchers influence the scientific aspects of the most important Relic of Christianity based on their personal religious aspects thus publishing goal-oriented documents.…”

A Comparison between the Face of the Veil of Manoppello and the Face of the Shroud of Turin

“…After carbon-14 dating [12] of a linen piece taken from a corner of the Turin Shroud, the scientific controversy regarding its authenticity exploded. Indeed, the medieval date, derived from carbon-14 analysis, is not compatible with the hundreds of data that, conversely, show the Turin Shroud is compatible with the historical period in which Jesus of Nazareth lived in Palestine, 2000 years ago [13,14]. Moreover, the carbon-14 dating results remain controversial [15,16], especially because of the likely non-negligible carbon contamination of the textile.…”