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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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