![]() “Barrie Schwortz is one of the world’s leading experts on the Shroud. UPDATE/2015, from CWR interview with Jewish Shroud expert Barrie Schworts (Jim Graves, “The Shroud: Not a Painting, Not a Scorch, Not a Photograph” March 27, 2015) ![]() UPDATE/2013: Scientific redating of the shroud -this time not the later patch- dated to the first century AD -to the very time of Christ. Subsequent studies attempting to date the Shroud still remain highly controversial and subject to divergent interpretations, especially since the scientist who performed the original C14 dating retracted his 1988 position that the shroud was a medieval forgery in a peer reviewed scientific journal -he discovered the fabric he tested was a patch later sewed onto the garment to repair it the date of the shroud itself is once again an open question! A tenth century codex, Codex Vossianus Latinus Q 69 refers to an eighth-century description of an imprint of Christ’s entire body left on a canvas kept in a church in Edessa: “King Abgar received a cloth on which one can see not only a face but the whole body” (in Latin: faciei figuram sed totius corporis figuram cernere poteris). Ian Wilson suggested the theory that the object venerated as the Mandylion from at least the sixth century was in fact the Shroud of Turin, folded so that only the face was visible and enclosed in a frame (Wilson, Ian, The Turin Shroud: The Burial Cloth of Jesus Christ?). The Eastern Orthodox Church still observes a feast commemorating the transfer from Edessa to Constantinople of a relic known as the Holy Mandylion “not made by hands.” Comparing the images below, notice how the photo of the Shroud of Turin, the image of Christ from a gold coin during the reign of Justinian II (dating between AD 692 and 695), the Pantokrator icons from Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (built under the personal supervision of Emperor Justinian I), and the monastery at traditional Mt. What did Christ look like? During the sixth century a variety of images of Jesus were said to be derived from an image “not made with hands”/αχειροποίητα cf. 3rd person singular) its temple.” The Father and the Son are its temple –Gk. Rev 21:22 says of the New Jerusalem, “I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the παντοκράτωρ, and the Lamb, are (“are” ἐστιν: Gk. The most common translation of Pantocrator is “Almighty” or “All-powerful” Pan, “all” + κρατος, “strength” omnipotent it may also be understood as denoting Ruler/Sustainer (κρατεω “to sustain”). ![]() Pantocrator or Pantokrator (Παντοκράτωρ) is the title used by the LXX to translate the Hebrew title El Shaddai ( אל שדי) Christians ascribed the title to Jesus. (see below), but this new 3D image looks uncannily like Christ Pantokrator. I have always thought the Shroud images were a dead ringer for the ancient Pantokrator icons, gold coins from Justinian’s reign, etc. A recent 3-dimensional computer-generated image from the Shroud of Turin was presented on the History Channel: ![]()
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