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New Light on Jesus: Research on the Turin Shroud Yields Surprising Knowledge

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I am not a reader of books with golden crosses on the cover. The Turin Shroud is just another of, oh so many dusty fragments, bones, saints, bleeding statues and gold crosses left over after 2000 years of power struggles, punishment and promises of heaven. What a thinking person can hope and even imagine is that there is a Creator, ...but that the Catholic church is the representative of the Eternal Truth on earth? No. Sorry.... Dr. Felzmann's book, describes the possible travels of the shroud. He has carefully researched, and presents the story of the shroud in a way that even a non scientific minded reader can follow. It seems reasonably proven that the man in the shroud was still alive as he lay in the tomb. Was the man Jesus? Possibly, but what the author points to, as he develops the evidence, point after point, is the real possibility that the historical Jesus was not dead as he was taken from the cross. What are the consequences? Jesus is for the author much more real and believable than a mystical 'offering lamb'. He is teacher and example of another way to those who want to believe in a Creator who is involved in history, without having to cease thinking. In this age of Wikileaks Dr.Felzmann's book reads like a real leak, a step in a direction that will one day possibly bring sense to those who are tired of the mysteries and illogicalities that the 'universal church' calls truth. We need more honest and carefully presented 'Churchleaks' like this book. I'm looking forward to the next one.

I decided to give this 2 stars instead of 1 because it was a nice effort, or attempt to piece a large puzzle together. He began with a riveting explanation of how the Shroud of Turin was indeed the face of Jesus, as we know since Ray Rogers proved in 2005 that they had accidentally carbon tested the backing material instead of the shroud itself. But then Felzmann went into a wild extrapolation of events that makes the da Vinci Code look like 1 + 1 =2. It was a good attempt, I believe a pure hearted attempt to bring a deeper understanding of the events of His life but it was too stretched, no where near enough information to connect the dots he laid down. I had a lot of questions in the end. The most intriguing thing he did raise was the presence of blood flow, on a shrouded body that should have no blood flow. Interesting start, but an ending to the most famous story ever told that even the author himself agreed was sketchy. My personal opinion is that the pious Essenes would have been appalled by Jesus, thus making it a weak argument that they would have shielded him. They most likely would have been relieved that He was finally gone. The expression of anger is something Jesus never held back. The old story remains anew, and the message ever strong.

Dr. Helmult Felzmann's book compiles very convincing scientific evidence that the shroud of Turin image was formed within natural laws. He describes many forensic studies of the man of the shroud images.
He presents convincing evidence that the man of the shroud image
was alive when the the image was formed.
A warm body and the Raymond Rogers Maillard reaction image
mechanism is shown to be a valid mechanism for forming the
shroud image.
His book ranks as one of the most important scientific Shroud books
along with the 1902 Paul Vignon "The Shroud of Christ",
the 1998 Rodney Hoare "The Turin Shroud is Genuine" and
the 2008 Raymond Rogers "A Chemist's Prespective on the
Shroud of Turin". Together they document a probable mechanism
following natural laws for the shroud image formation.