Mysterious Shroud

by Ian Wilson

Book Overview

This lavishly illustrated, authoritative, report on the latest examination of the Shroud--purported to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ--is both visually compelling and as gripping and fascinating... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385190743
• ISBN13: 9780385190749
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting but contradicts his earlier works

This book is a discussion about the investigation into the mysterious cloth known as the Shroud of Turin. By now, almost everyone is familiar with the faint 3-D image visible only in X-rays and with the ongoing battle over its authenticity. The Vatican allowed a small sliver to be used for experimental purposes while putting out the word through various agencies that this was not the cloth that wrapped a Jew who lived and died 2,000 years ago. What is confounding is that Ian Wilson also authored another work titled JESUS: THE EVIDENCE, in which he fairly succinctly comes to the conclusion that (1) the scriptures were written as religious - not historyical - documents, (2) that Jesus never thought of himself as the Messiah, (3) that the idea of a "son" of Jehova was not only unacceptable but blasphemous to observant Jews - only the pagans believe that Gods could father earthly children and (4) most important, that it is fairly obvious that Jesus did not rise from the dead on the "third day" (actually 36 hours). Saying all this, how can he assert that the Shroud was formed through unknown supernatural events? In the book he examines the physical evidence, the anthropological and social history and the various suppositions, arguments and theories that have arisen as a result of various statements. THis is a good book but more explanation is needed in light of his earlier work.