The Shroud of Turin: An Adventure of Discovery
by Mary Whanger, Alan Whanger
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Author: Alan Whanger, Mary WhangerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-01
ISBN: 1577360796
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Providence House Publishers
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Summary: 5 Stars
Dr. Alan and Mary Whanger's book, "The Shroud of Turin: An Adventure of Discovery", broke new ground in at least two areas. One of these is the Whangers' polarized image overlay technique, a means of comparing images that predates the computerized image processing that we see being used today, including by the Whanger group. The 1980s-dated overlay innovation identified "points of congruence" between such diverse objects as Byzantine coins and the Turin Shroud. An 8-millimeter image of Jesus Christ on a cent-sized gold coin may have as many as 175 points of congruence with the Shroud and only a small number of significant points of non-congruence. The same is true of the sixth century icon of Christ the Pantocrator at St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, Egypt. It has more than 200 points of congruence with the Shroud. Objects like coins or icons may not prove that the Shroud is ancient, but they help support any existing evidence of an early date.
Such evidence includes a variety of pollens that had clung to the Shroud in times past when it was exposed to the elements. Again, the Whangers led the way. Using sticky-tape samples taken from the Shroud by the late Swiss criminologist Dr. Max Frei in the 1970s, the Whangers examined them with Israeli botanists Dr. Avinoam Danin and Dr. Uri Baruch in the late 1990s. They found a number of pollens that are indigenous to Palestine and one of them dates back to at least the eighth century AD. All of this makes for good reading, whetting the appetite for more. This book is an excellent companion to Ian Wilson's landmark treatment "The Shroud of Turin: The Burial Cloth of Jesus Christ?" (1979 edition with notes on Dr. Frei's pollen samples).
Dennis J. Mercieri, Holy Apostles Seminary, Cromwell, CT, USA
Summary of The Shroud of Turin: An Adventure of Discovery
The story of the Whangers? nearly twenty years of painstaking research on the Shroud of Turin, perhaps the most intensely studied single object in history, is a compelling adventure of unimagined discoveries. They present remarkable findings in a conversational style with sixty-five illustrations.Church History Books
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