Subtopics
The following aspects of the Shroud of Turin are documented in the indicated highlighted sections of this document:
• a summary of the scientific and circumstantial evidence for it being Jesus’ burial cloth. §Summary
• historical documentation for the traditional claims. §History
• its corroboration with the Christian Bible eyewitness accounts. §History
• multiple evidences for a 1st century age of the linen cloth. §Age
• 120+ bloody wounds consistent with flogging, crucifixion, and a cap of thorns. §Blood
• the enigmatic 3-D frontal and dorsal images. §Images
• the Sudarium: the other cloth, a head cloth. §Sudarium
• evidence for the Shroud being in Jerusalem (and in its subsequent known locations): pollen, limestone. §Whereabouts
• dating evidence from textile characteristics. §Textiles §Archeology
• art and numismatic evidence beginning in the 5th century AD. §Artwork
• a potentially scientifically verifiable hypothesis explaining the image formation and the anomalous carbon-14 data. §Radiation Hypothesis
• the coherence of the multiple lines of evidence. §Coherence
• potential future testing. §Future Testing
• the profound personal implication of all this evidence. §Personal Response