The Turin Shroud Is Genuine: The Irrefutable Evidence Updated

By Rodney Hoare

For years, scientists and religious believers have been debating the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. Rodney Hoare spent more than 20 years researching the facts surrounding the shroud and came to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0285634712
• ISBN13: 9780285634718
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Souvenir Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Brave conclusion, dedicated to the truth

The explosivness of the shroud of turin is that if you assume that the man under the shroud was dead, there is no natural explanation for the formation of the image. But if you assume a living body, not only the formation of the image can be explained by a natural process, but also alle the other findings (like the padle of blood under the back) can be explained. Rodney Hoar dared to brake a tabu: Yes - under the shroud lay Jesus, but the man of the shroud was not dead - the evidence for this is clear.

Great detective work, in spite of the weak ending!

A book worth reading! But, as another reviewer mentioned, an ending not consistent with the main part of the book. That reviewer speaks of "ascention" and there just is no such thing. Ascending to where? The clouds? The heavens? The Kingdom of God is within, not 'out there'! Everyone knows that, on a cellular level, the physical body dies and re-creates itself daily and death is when that event no longer takes place. The author of this book may well be right, when he states that Jesus possibly lived on. What most Christians, and others, are uncomfortable with is the question: What did Jesus do after such an event, and why hasn't anyone heard about that part of his life? We'll never know for sure. That corrupted "apostle" Paul saw to that! What might help the curious reader is to form a larger backdrop to this sort of information. Here, a few other authors provide an interesting tapestry: "Evolution's End" by Joseph Chilton Pearce (odd title, but one of the best books I've read), "Jesus, A Revolutionary Biography" by John Dominic Crossan, "The Gospel According to Jesus" by Stephen Mitchell and perhaps "The Five Gospels" by Funk(?) The answer to "Who is MY Jesus" comes to each of us differently, just like every fingerprint and every snowflake is different, but this book will make up one of the mileposts we all need to become the being we want to be.

Good start...bad ending

The author ends a fantastic bit of detective work with a rather novel, yet disatisfying twist. While concluding that the Shroud is genuine, the author then concludes that Christ did not die, but was merely comatose, was helped from the tomb, and then lived a normal life. What a pity to waste a great book with such an inconsiderate and unnecessary ending! The author seems to "forget" the Ascension altogether as he trudges through his quest to destroy the fundamentals of Christianity almost in the same breath that he proves that the shroud is genuine. Would have been five stars if not for his ludicrous, unsubstantiated and Anti-Christian conclusions. Read it but skip the last few chapters and be spared the twaddle.

Forensic science yields valuable confirmation of Shroud

While the FBI repeatedly has declined invitations to comment on the Shroud of Turin, the British authorities are not so reticent and they do have much to say.Forensic science is a field that had not previously weighed in on the authenticity of The Shroud of Turin.This fine book should be read by all Shroud buffs.