The Jesus Conspiracy

by Kersten, Holger; Gruber, Elmar R.

• ISBN13: 9781852304850
• ISBN10: 1852304855
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Element Books Ltd

Summary

Seeking to disprove the 1988 carbon-dating that declared the Shroud a forgery, this controversial study makes conclusions about Church's support of the declaration, the authenticity of the Shroud, and the question of Jesus' death on the cross.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
The Old Relic and Modern Science	p. 1
Traces in the Linen	p. 2
Revelations of Photography	p. 5
Authenticity Doubted	p. 8
The Beginnings of Scientific Research	p. 12
New Photographs - New Finds	p. 18
The Surgeon and the Cloth	p. 21
The Linen Tested	p. 23
The Incision	p. 24
Pollen Traces Lead to the Holy Land	p. 26
State of the Art Technology Exposes Secrets	p. 29
Is it Blood on the Cloth?	p. 32
The Problem of Image Formation	p. 35
The Relic in the Laboratory	p. 36
Arguments About Who Gets the Job	p. 38
The 'Radiocarbon Mafia'	p. 43
The Textile Researcher and the Holy Cloth	p. 47
Zurich: A Laboratory Visit	p. 52
London: The British Shroud Society	p. 61
Dr Tite and the 'Indisputable Facts'	p. 67
Clue-Hunting in Museum Archives	p. 70
Oxford: The Vanishing Professor	p. 71
The Article in Nature	p. 74
The Vestment of Saint Louis	p. 77
An Unexpected Letter from Oxford	p. 81
Hunting for Evidence	p. 83
Turin: 'Journalists are Dangerous'	p. 85
Paris: The Symposium of Shroud Researchers	p. 87
The Photographs Prove the Deception	p. 90
The Cloth in the Shadows of History	p. 101
In Pursuit of the 'True Shroud'	p. 102
The Story of King Abgar	p. 106
The Miraculous Portrait of the Saviour	p. 111
The Discovery of the Mandylion	p. 117
Abgar and the Messenger of Jesus	p. 121
The Portrait is Rescued	p. 126
How the Shroud Became the Mandylion	p. 128
Miraculous Images in Early Christianity	p. 136
Developments in the Image of Christ	p. 144
The Original Image of Christ in Edessa	p. 150
The Mandylion Comes to Constantinople	p. 163
A Secret is Revealed	p. 170
The Portrait of Christ and the Fourth Crusade	p. 176
The Shroud Disappears	p. 183
The Templars' Manoeuvre	p. 190
The Power and Secrets of the Order of the Knights Templar	p. 196
The Mysterious Idol of the Templars	p. 201
The Shroud Resurfaces	p. 211
Excursus: A Historical Puzzle	p. 218
The 'Official Story'	p. 222
The Secrets of Golgotha	p. 227
Two Burials in St John's Chapel	p. 228
In the Lord's Tomb	p. 231
The Mysterious 'Aromatic Substances'	p. 236
Jesus and the Essenes	p. 238
On Dying on the Cross	p. 243
The Side Wound and the Miracle Drink	p. 249
The Open Rock Tomb	p. 254
The Linen Clothes in the Sepulchre	p. 259
Resurrected or Arisen?	p. 264
Transmission of the Secret Knowledge	p. 268
Fraud of the Century	p. 277
Jesus: The 'Man of the Shroud'	p. 278
The Image of a Living Person	p. 281
Revealing Blood Marks	p. 286
How the Image was Formed	p. 294
A Needle in a Haystack	p. 301
A Disturbing Suspicion	p. 304
Splendour and Rot of the Great Experiment	p. 313
Masks of the Conspirators	p. 319
Investigations by a French Detective	p. 324
Chronology of the Untold Events	p. 328
Afterword	p. 337
Notes	p. 342
Bibliography	p. 353
Index	p. 365
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