Visit our new beta site!

Scandals and Follies of the 'Holy Shroud'.

From: Skeptical Inquirer  |  Date: 9/1/2001  |  Author: NICKELL, JOE

The Shroud of Turin continues to be the subject of media presentations treating it as so mysterious as to imply a supernatural origin. One recent study (Binga 2001) found only ten credible skeptical books on the topic versus over 400 promoting the cloth as the authentic, or potentially authentic, burial cloth of Jesus--including most recently a revisionist tome, The Resurrection of the Shroud (Antonacci 2000). Yet since the cloth appeared in the middle of the fourteenth century it has ...

Browse by alphabet: