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I was troubled by all of these points as well, especially the
assumption that all shrouds were woven the same way. That _is_ the
argument here, isn't it?
Andrew E. Larsen
On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Christopher Crockett wrote:
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>> I thought this might be of interest.
>> Jeffrey Woolf
>
>> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1135491.html
>
>
> "Israel experts said on Wednesday that a burial shroud known as the
> Turin
> shroud, assumed to be the type used to wrap the body of Jesus, did not
> actually originate from Jesus-era Jerusalem.
>
> "The conclusion was based on excavation discoveries of a first-
> century C.E.
> shrouded man found in a tomb on the edge of the Old City of
> Jerusalem...
>
> Along with the DNA of the shrouded man, this was the first time
> that fragments
> of a burial shroud have been found from the time of Jesus in
> Jerusalem, which,
> unlike the complex weave of the Turin Shroud, this shroud was made
> up of a
> simple two-way weave, as the textiles historian Dr. Orit Shamir was
> able to
> show."
>
>
> i read the whole article, but failed to find the report about Dr.
> Shamir's
> astonishing finding that there was only a single type of cloth
> which was used
> for burial shrouds in this period.
>
> perhaps this remarkable discovery has been published elsewhere?
>
>
> otOh, there's this bit, at the end of the article:
>
> "The co-infection of both leprosy and tuberculosis here and in 30
> percent of
> DNA remains in Israel and Europe from the ancient and modern period
> also
> provided evidence for the postulate that the medieval plague of
> leprosy was
> eliminated by an increased level of tuberculosis in Europe as the
> area became
> urbanized."
>
> i certainly wasn't aware that
>
> "...both leprosy and tuberculosis [is found]...in 30 percent of DNA
> remains in
> Israel and Europe from the ancient and modern period [sic]..."
>
> much less that tuberculosis could, somehow, "eliminate" leprosy:
>
> "...the medieval plague of leprosy was eliminated by an increased
> level of
> tuberculosis in Europe as the area became urbanized."
>
> c
>
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