{"id":7247,"date":"2024-03-27T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7247"},"modified":"2024-03-22T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T22:15:34","slug":"the-shroud-of-turin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7247","title":{"rendered":"The Shroud of Turin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week I attended a presentation on the Shroud of Turin given by Dr. Rolf Enger<\/a>, Colonel, USAF (retired), Professor Emeritus of Physics at the US Air Force Academy, follower of Jesus. I knew Rolf back in the 1990s. Rolf has a doctorate in Laser Physics\/Holography and was on a team that investigated the Shroud. This account of Rolf’s presentation makes for a fitting Holy Week meditation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This short introductory paragraph on Wikipedia<\/a> is all I had known about the Shroud:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shroud of Turin<\/strong> is a length of linen cloth that bears a faint image of the front and back of a man. It has been venerated for centuries, especially by members of the Catholic Church, as the actual burial shroud used to wrap the body of Jesus of Nazareth after his crucifixion, and upon which Jesus’s bodily image is miraculously imprinted. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolf’s presentation included these facts, also in the Wikipedia article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The human image on the shroud can be discerned more clearly in a black and white photographic negative than in its natural sepia color, an effect discovered in 1898 by Secondo Pia, who produced the first photographs of the shroud…The documented history of the shroud goes back to 1357.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Full-length image of the Shroud, which is 14 feet 5 inches by 3 feet 7 inches or, as Rolf said, 8 cubits by 2 cubits.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are my takeaways from Rolf’s presentation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n